Phonolingua
The Phonolingua series was inspired by love and distance - it was a collaboration with Chiara, "a wonderful girl who was living in Italy at the time." Tom and Chiara began to exchange Photoshop images by email, layering them to create a conversation with images, and eventually creating a series of eleven Mac applets which explored love, alienation and the difficulties of being apart. Tom and Chiara used Premiere to capture video, and exported it to Photoshop as a series of PICTs, combining it with material created in Illustrator. |
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"Photoshop is great because it will let you control the exact hue of the colours and shows the current level," Tom says. "It used to be such a task to find the exact colour of the pixels on screen." Tip Toe in the Morning, here, articulates what Tom describes as "the sensual moments, such as waking up in the morning, or the sound of a baby's feet pattering across floorboards." Phonolingua was commissioned as 'a love story in sounds and images' by Lovebytes for the Digital Space project in April 2000. |
