[Scan Artist] Rebecca Wild

Rebecca Wild has been working with scan art for several years. The way she creates her work is usually spontaneous and experimental; testing things out repetitively until something unique happens. In one of her projects, Musical Traces, she has experimented with using musical device to bend light and replicate a visual sound wave through scanner. In the other project Abstraction, she tried painting on top of the scanner and allowing the paint to flow freely so that the paint becomes the subject instead the material.

Wild's use of scanner is innovating and the effect she creates displays movement and fluidity. Her work has a tactile quality and through painting on top of scanner the paint (water droplet) creates a surreal effect different from that of digital manipulation. By using scanner as the canvas she makes use of the light (during scanning) to create layers so that her imagery displays a 3D quality.

"Most artists who use a scanner are seen as photographers as they use it as a form of camera but being a painter at heart, I see the scanner as a canvas that can be explored, altered and worked into with the objects I use." -- Rebecca Wild