To create this work, a large composition, hand-drawn by the artist, was processed by a custom neural network that was trained on the artist’s “Bodies” dataset. Eaton was inspired by the many large-scale depictions of the Last Judgment that were produced during the Renaissance. The computer processing required to render the complex volumes and shading for each body in such a large-scale and highly detailed image posed a significant technical challenge. To resolve this problem, Eaton produced the image in smaller, tiled pieces, which he then reassembled for printing.

 




Scott Eaton, Humanity (Fall of the Damned) (full view and detail), 2019, duratrans backlit print mounted to acrylic, Courtesy of the Artist