Digital Artist: M. Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie

"More omnivorous than omnipotent, encompassing everything from cutting-edge physics, ancient myth, neo-noir short stories and medieval alchemy to climate change, contemporary politics and economic theory, his installations fuse unique narrative forms with our constantly changing factual understanding of our universe. His most recent exhibitions in New York and London; ‘Universal Adversary’ and ‘Ghost Operator’, incorporated architectural interventions and chance based interactive digital projections to explore an alternate history of time." -- matthewritchie.com

Zine Layout/Progress

The boxes represent (approximately) the bounds of where future images will be.

Issuu Test: HR Giger

Open publication - Free publishing - More giger

Anti-Whaling, Anti-Context - Project Progress

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        I dissolved the idea of an interlaced piece of different cultural perspectives into one focusing on the whaling industry in Japan. 
        A brief history: Japan has hunted whales for hundreds of years, it is part of their culture, and whale meat is a delicacy.  Now in this modern era there have been conservative sanctions placed on whaling worldwide by the International Whaling Commission.  Japan ignores these sanctions and continues to thin the the already small numbers of Humpback and Bottlenose whales by claiming they are conducting "scientific research" and are merely collecting "samples." Yet tracking numbers on packaged whale meat shows they're shipping these "research samples" to local restaurants for huge profit.
        Regarding the composition, I'm not sure whether I should use the Japan-side panel (right) to show that while they have a legitimate and rich culture and history in this area that they are still committing a humanitarian injustice, or rather to show them as mindless butchers with no regard for animal life.