So Far // So Close by Jæn
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Medium: Pen, Paper, Photoshop, AfterEffects, FL Studio
Dimensions: 2160 x 3054 px
Year: 2022
Status: available
Is it a leap of faith, the moment before knowing if love is mutual? Is it grieving, yearning for your lost one’s presence? Is it a long-distance relationship where fantasy overrides reality? In limbo.
Why collect this work?
Nested mint and lavender bands narrow around an outstretched hand, making separation feel like an active force rather than empty space.
- Jæn states that concept and aesthetics should function together. The artist’s description leaves love, grief and long-distance fantasy unresolved; here, that intended limbo is carried by a reach with no completed contact.
- In the supplied image, a warm, opaque arm rises from the lower right toward the forearm of a pale, translucent figure descending at left. Their hands occupy different levels, while a luminous ring around the translucent wrist marks a further separation between them.
- The documented use of pen, paper and Photoshop permits outlined figuration, flat colour and layered transparency to coexist. AfterEffects and FL Studio are also listed, but this still does not establish movement, duration or sound.
- The work provides a focused case for considering how digital illustration can locate intimacy in distance: repetition concentrates attention on the gap, while opacity distinguishes bodily presence from apparition or memory.
About the Artist
Jæn
Jæn is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: digital-art. Based in Bordeaux, France.
Nationality: French
Jæn's art bridges his surreal & psychedelic influences with a conceptual and experimental avant-garde spirit.
