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Residual Core

Posted on 23 July 2025 | by Denis

Residual Core: A Digital Exploration of Memory and Tension

Residual Core is part of the Core Archive series — a contemplative body of work exploring digital density, suspended matter, and the quiet residue of memory. This piece unfolds through slow visual gestures, animated textures, and a persistent tension between form and erosion.

The animation begins with large textured surfaces. These gradually reveal themselves through opacity. In addition, a soft color field spills in, like sediment drifting into view. Subtle pulsations and blurred thresholds evoke something unresolved — the trace of guilt, or the heaviness of thought that won’t dissipate.

A looping motion suggests that even stillness is alive with tension. The ambient soundtrack, composed specifically for this piece, combines deep tones, granulated pulses, and occasional atonal surges. As a result, the audio mirrors the slow, layered rhythm of the composition.

Residual Core: Contextual Reflection

Residual Core emerges from a reflection on what remains after the visible has dissolved — a digital residue that resists erasure. Within the Core Archive series, this piece becomes a form of emotional sediment. It captures what is left behind when presence becomes memory, or when clarity fades into abstraction.

Inspired by erosion, guilt, and the limits of perception, the artwork invites the viewer to engage with what is unseen. In contrast, there’s a tension between exposure and concealment. The form seems to struggle to surface through a fog of time. It resists full comprehension and asks for contemplation rather than resolution.

Residual Core: Printed Edition

Residual Core is also available as a high-resolution archival print. It is produced with giclée technology on Hahnemühle Photo Rag — a fine art paper known for its soft texture and museum-quality depth.

This edition translates the digital density and visual tension of the screen-based version into a tangible object. Therefore, the printed work retains the layered composition and textured atmosphere of the moving image. It offers a contemplative presence, even in stillness.

Prints are available in three formats through the Limited Edition collection. Each print includes a 1-inch white border. In addition, all editions come signed and include a certificate of authenticity.

Watch the reel

View the contemplative reel for Residual Core on Instagram. The video includes text segments and audio developed specifically for this digital piece.

Compression Fault

Posted on 16 July 2025 | by Denis

A Slow Breach in the Frame

Compression Fault explores a moment of suspended tension, as if the image surface had been subjected to internal pressure. Movement isn’t visible, but its echo is everywhere: a subtle shift, an invisible force, a fault compressing light.

In developing this piece, I layered different elements of digital matter: faint geometric forms, soft directional blur, a sweeping light barely present, and veils of ochre and white that alter the sense of depth. It was built for the screen, in a vertical format where time stretches and the eye drifts slowly.

What Inspired Compression Fault

I often work at the edge of perception, where motion is hinted at but not confirmed. With Compression Fault, I wanted to slow everything down — not just visually, but emotionally. The quietness of the colour field contrasts with the fractured geometry, creating a space for pause. This piece invites the viewer to sit inside the hesitation, to sense the pressure before the rupture, and to consider how digital matter can still carry tension, silence, and time.

The title suggests rupture or collapse, but here, the fault doesn’t explode. It expands. It absorbs. I wanted the animation, as well as the static image, to hold the moment just before the fracture, like a slowed-down landslide or a silent atmospheric pressure.

This work is part of the Core Archive series, where each image acts as a threshold between stillness and motion, presence and trace.

Light holds its breath. Geometry trembles at the edge of disappearance. The fault is not broken — it is becoming.
— Ego Klar

Available Formats – Compression Fault

This artwork is available in a limited number of signed, screen-optimized editions. To learn more about sizes, pricing, and the printing process, visit the Unique Editions page or consult the pricing guide.

An animated version is also available as a contemplative screen-based piece. A preview of the motion can be viewed on Instagram.

Standing Memory

Posted on 11 July 2025 | by Denis

A Trace, Suspended in Silence

Standing Memory is part of the Core Archive series. These digital works emerge from dense layers of texture, compression, and suspended stillness.

This piece carries the quiet weight of remembrance. Indeed, its central form stands amidst soft gradients and shifting surfaces. It evokes something fossilized or preserved — a remnant of an earlier presence. The image hovers between erosion and endurance, presence and absence.

Moreover, there is a subtle pull between what appears and what remains hidden. In its muted palette and restrained textures, Standing Memory invites viewers to linger in this ambiguity. It holds its ground. Yet it gently dissolves at the edges, as though slowly yielding to time.

This work was also featured in a contemplative Reel on Instagram. It emphasizes its silent, suspended motion and meditative atmosphere.

The animation spans approximately twenty seconds. As a result, its pace encourages a lingering gaze. It allows the viewer to experience the artwork as a quiet, calm presence. For instance, subtle shifts in gradients and textures evoke the passage of time. In the end, the piece highlights the tension between stillness and movement. It intentionally resists resolution. Instead, it invites a moment of pause — a hesitation between appearance and disappearance.

In this way, this piece explores how digital art can serve as a space for memory, preservation, and erosion. Thus, it questions what we choose to archive and what we allow to fade. It bridges the gap between the digital and the physical world of fine art.

Collect Standing Memory — Limited Fine Art Prints

Standing Memory is available as a limited edition fine art print. There are five editions per size. You can find it through my Unique Editions collection:

Miniature Marvel — 12 in wide, variable height — 504 $
Grand Gesture — 24 in wide, variable height — 1024 $
Monumental Piece — 36 in wide, variable height — 1924 $

Printed on museum-grade Hahnemühle Photo Rag with giclée technology. Learn more about this exceptional paper on the Hahnemühle official website. Consequently, each print includes a 1-inch white border for framing.

A Closing Reflection

Memory stands tall, and silence stretches into the light.

— Ego Klar

Core Memory

Posted on 5 July 2025 | by Denis

Between Compression and Silence

Core Memory is part of the Core Archive Series, a digital collection that explores compression, memory, and suspended presence. Designed for screen-based viewing, this piece hovers between material and residue, between memory and absence.

This work suggests the weight of what is no longer present but still exerts pressure. The image appears quiet and inert at first glance, yet tension quietly builds under its stillness. Core Memory is not about what is recalled, but about what stays hidden, compressed beneath the surface.

A presence, compressed.

For further context on abstraction in contemporary art, see Tate’s overview of abstract art.

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