Field 

Craig Mullins painted "Field" using digital painting software and hardware. Rather than traditional brushes and canvases, he likely used a stylus on a pressure-sensitive tablet, layering digital pigments to construct his composition. The work is imbued with the soft, diffuse light of a traditional oil painting, but is built from the technology of image reproduction. Each virtual brushstroke is a digital command; a coded gesture influencing the final form. The artist uses his software to mimic the effects of plein air painting, making visible the labor of the digital craftsman. This invites us to consider a wider definition of craft that accounts for digital tools. Mullins’s labor is one of coding and composition, a dance between intention and the capacities of technology. By focusing on the processes and materials employed, we gain insight into the evolving intersection of art, labor, and technology in the digital age.