The paintings of Pieter Schoolwerth

Topic: The paintings of Pieter Schoolwerth
Name: Mak Hoi Ying
Student ID: 60174231

Pieter Schoolwerth is an artist who mainly works with layered paintings. He mixes digital images, 3D models, and painting together. I like his work because it shows how digital images change the way we see people and space, and how the body looks broken apart when it goes through screens and software.

Your Vacuum Blows, Which Sucks （source：https://sl.bing.net/im79swU0Gq）


This week, I looked at his painting Your Vacuum Blows, Which Sucks (2019). It really caught my eye because it feels like a picture that is half real, half digital, almost like when a photo glitches or looks blurry after compression. The bodies in the painting look like they were cut out from different files and then stuck together, which makes them look unstable and strange.

I also noticed that he uses flat, pixel-like colors mixed with transparent figures. For me, this looks like what happens when a digital image loses its “quality.” Instead of being clear, it becomes like a memory fragment.

Schoolwerth once said his paintings show how “the figure disappears into digital space.” I think this connects to the idea that archives or databases don’t just keep memories, they also change or distort them. His work feels like a visual archive of our digital lives, where things are stored, layered, but never complete.

For my own work in the future, I think I could try using effects like pixelation or glitches to show how memory and identity can be broken or remade in the digital world.

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