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Jeff Mihalyo

Jeff Mihalyo works in dozens of different mediums, including oil paint, paper & pencil, photography, video, egg, and scannography. Born in Massachusetts, Mihalyo attended Otis College of Art and Design and became a graphic designer. He is a freelancer and has done work for Microsoft, DreamWorks, Nintendo, Scholastic, and Disney. He is currently the senior art director at the augmented reality start-up Workshop3D. His work often explores themes of balance and philosophical issues. Although he is best known for his surrealist oil painting, his scannography is nothing to scoff at either.

"Butterfly grasses"

"Sleep Moon"

https://www.mihalyo.com/new/

12 SCANS 

Here is a yellow forest I made out of ginkgo tree leaves I found outside the art building, markers I chose to match the leaves, and pencils. A bug (my Leavanny enamel Pokemon pin) emerges from the depths of the forest and looks around. The bug represents curiosity to me, poking at leaves and turning over rocks. The forest serves to facilitate their curiosity.

In this sequence, we see the bug being slowly crushed by a falling iPhone. Its red eye and overly perfect industrial shape clashes with its imperfect, naturalistic surroundings, creating a sense of unease with the phone's presence. The phone here represents technology (duh) and the soul-sucking vacuum or immense excess of emotion that comes with it.

The bug has survived!! As the phone settles into the grass, the bug, having narrowly avoided death, climbs on top of it and holds up a leaf over it. The triumph over the phone represents triumph over unoriginality and control.

The aspects of this piece were easy to place together to look like a forest, as their shapes lend themselves to that interpretation. maneuvering the bug and phone to look as if they were moving was more difficult. I've been dabbling in animation lately, and even in an application specifically for animation, it is extremely difficult and painstaking. Trying to make an animation with a scanner sounds like a fun experiment for a later project.