There’s No Distance 2.2

In 2021, Reas began working on a new series of videos called 'There’s No Distance'. It builds on sketches from the last two decades and is a direct evolution of his 'Still Life' series of software from 2016. These are images to think with; Reas uses them to think about simulation and the history of pictorial representation. In each video, a rotating Platonic solid is defined mathematically and then rendered as a 2D digital image. The color values for each pixel in the image is used to draw and position a red, green, and blue line in simulated 3D space. That volumetric space is flattened back into the screen to create the final image we see in the video. Some of the historical references are the development of linear perspective in painting, impressionism and post impressionism, analytical cubism, and many late twentieth century paintings, but Reas feels this work is entirely twenty-first century and essentially of and about digital images. The total series of videos is limited to one set for each platonic solid and one video for each side. The second series with the cube has six videos; this is the second video in the series, 'There’s No Distance 2.2'.