User:Bess Krairat

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SIXFOLD SCREEN DEPICTING THE WRATHFUL KINGS OF LIGHT AN KING OF PASSION

Japan
19th century, Edo period, 1603 - 1868
Silk with pigments and gold, wood

The worship of the five Wrathful Kings of light, of whom Fodu is the principal, plays an important part in Japanese tantric Buddhism. Although they posses boundless compassion, they are depicted in their fearsome shapes in order to terrify and drive away the demons in ourselves the dangerous monsters called hate, greed, ignorance, jealousy and all their kin. The sixth king is the fiery-red Aizen, God of sensual lust (fourth panel from left). This rare sixfold table screen was opened only once a year for ritual use.

WHY For this project I have chosen for this painting because I was fascinated by the illustrations and the materials. I think that to illustrate with so much detail was difficult in that time. I like how the artists were inspired by the non-physical and used their imagination to make it come to live, visual on paper. They created something we can grasp.

I was looking for inspiration and found “Drawing Machine” project by Harvey Moon. a mechanical robot that takes commands from a computer in order to draw onto the wall. He has used Max/MSP and Processing. The algorithms that he has made on Processing take JPG files as input to draw. He has made an SVG application that will send X,Y coordinates from a vector file so that you can use the machine just like a printer. This inspires me to do something similar.

That’s the reason I’d would like to re-illustrate this painting in processing.