Exploring the Monochrome in the Digital Age: Medium as Message and Perception as Process

The series DIGICHROMES is an investigation into perception and its fluctuating relationship with reality. Echoing Yves Klein’s radical monochromes, this piece invites the viewer into a meditative field where color becomes both subject and threshold, an interface between sensation and interpretation. Unlike Klein’s spiritual pursuit of the immaterial, DIGICHROMES interrogate the materiality of digital space and how it shapes our seeing. By combining digital print with mixed media, mounted on canvas and wood, Wlaszyn reasserts the tactile presence of the artwork while questioning its reproduction in the virtual realm. The monochrome becomes a paradox: infinitely reproducible yet uniquely present. The choice of surface — canvas over wood — grounds the work, adding a physical counterpoint to its conceptual weight.

Each DIGICHROME acts as a perceptual laboratory, prompting viewers to confront how color, texture, and composition interact with memory, mood, and expectation. It’s not what we see, but how we see it. The work is both sensory and cerebral, evoking a dialogue between the eye and the idea. This series is a visual and philosophical conversation with the real. As with all works in the DIGICHROMES series, it both sustains and disrupts its predecessors, engaging in a recursive exchange that never quite resolves. This tension, between continuity and innovation, presence and absence, is where its power lies.

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DIGICHROMES: D/B_1 Digital Print & Mixed Media on Canvas mounted on wood

2018 — 2025

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