9" x 12" ink work 
on Strathmore watercolor paper
Painted with Windsor and Newton Blue Black Calligraphy Ink diluted for different greyscale values.
plotted on a Batam Tools ArtFrame

Artist Statement: In 2012, while working at the leading edge of 3D digitization, I collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum to scan works from their collections. One of my favorites at the Brooklyn Museum is a small fragmentary sculpture of Alexander the Great—a preserved head, torso, and upper right arm from a composite statuette.

I captured the piece using photogrammetry: dozens of photographs were processed into a detailed 3D model, translating an ancient object into digital form.

In 2026, I returned to that scan and wrote software to transform the 3D model into a watercolor “score” for the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot and Bantam Tools ArtFrame. The resulting work is an animation in which each frame is physically painted, then assembled into motion—an experiment in moving an artifact across time and mediums: stone to pixels to pigment.

Alexander the Great, 100 B.C.E.–100 C.E. Marble. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 54.162.
Brooklyn Museum object page: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/3606