Meet Mark Humes, Playform Featured Pro-Art Filter Artist
Featured Pro-Art Filter Artist Mark Humes’s New Filters Are Now Available.
Playform Studio Manager Mirabelle Alan got a chance to speak with Mark Humes about his art practice and new filter release with Playform. Learn more about the artist and his new filter releases below, and try out his filters—exclusively on Playform.
Mark Humes is an experimental digital artist that works and resides in Fort Myers, Florida. "His work portrays survival, hopefulness, and resilience—the raw human condition of keeping strong and the willingness to keep moving despite the trauma and hardships. Mark uses colors and shapes as his language to share his stories and thoughts with the world. What emerges is an internal language that is not only personal and emotional but also universal, touching every human who witnesses the sheer beauty of each artwork.”
As part of Playform’s new Pro-Art filter launch, Mark Humes is first singularly selected featured artist to be included. Check out some of his work below that are selected as Pre-Defined Styles in Playform’s Pro-Art Filters.
Mirabelle Alan: How did your digital arts career begin?
Mark Humes: This all started when I was in the V.A Hospital shortly after being deemed permanently disabled. I had problems expressing myself, I just didn't have words to talk about what I had been through so I was asked to draw/paint what I was feeling. The art therapist quickly realized I had a talent for this beyond a means of therapy and encouraged me to make this my new vocation.
M.A: How has the implementation of Playform AI added/shifted your body of work?
M.H: It has given my work a life of its own. I uploaded my full bodywork into the A,I as the starting gene pool so to speak and in 2 hours it created 88 original works of art. Being able to create original quality art at scale opens doors to endless print opportunities from fashion to publishing.
M.A: Your art practice is abstract, bold and surreal. Tell me about your art practice and creative process.
M.H: All my work comes from a place of self-expression and meditation. I visualize the thought or feeling I am trying to capture first then from memory recreate what I visualized. Since I am working from a memory i.e. a known image it allows me to work in layers the same way you would with still life painting, which I am finding lends itself quite well to what Playforms A.I. tools do.
“It's like true conjuration magic brought to life.”
Mark Humes on the future of digital art.
M.A: You mentioned previously that you envisioned your works to be applicable onto faces, images, etc. As a featured Playform Pro-Art Filter artist, how has it been to see your work translated into a filter?
M.H: I think it's a great thing to be able to make my work collaborative and interactive in this way. In my experience, most of what is on people's walls are pictures of themselves and their loved ones so I feel it's an honor to be part of that because my art can be part of people's personal history and memories. It would be impossible for me to do commissioned work for everyone in the world but with the Playform Pro-Art Filter, that experience is just a few clicks away.
M.A: As a digital abstract artist, what does the future of art look like to you?
M.H: I think there is unlimited potential out there, with the advent of A.R, V.R, and 3d printing almost anything is possible. A.R can turn real-world spaces into hidden art galleries, V.R can allow an artist to create full immersive universes and 3d printing has the power to turn things that were once only ideas into standing 3d forms, it's like true conjuration magic brought to life. When you add this all together with the power of A.I that has the power to capture an artist's style and reproduce it this adds a form of immortality to the mix. So to me, I see a future where an artist can ascend to a state close to a Wizard.