Wingdings-Zoom Notation System

This image was created by playing around with the in-camera radial zoom blur technique, applied to chess pieces.  I do seem to enjoy playing with chess pieces in my art—moreso than actually playing chess. Although a small part of me hopes that people seeing my art work might jump to the false conclusion that I am an accomplished chess player…which is not the case.
 
My interest in chess as a subject actually goes back to my undergraduate degree when I learned that one of my favorite artists, Marcel Duchamp, was an avid chess player (I have been told he apparently was actually pretty good). After that I started making paintings of chess pieces and then other games as well. That led me to my interest in play as a philosophy of sorts around which to base my art.
 
The point here was to create an image of an amped up chess experience.  I thought it interesting to make an image where the chess board appears frozen in time just like in movies where super heroic characters can move so fast everything seems to freeze and/or blur in some way.  The funny thing is that watching a game of chess could not be less like this.  One can certainly become absorbed in a game of chess but I would not describe it as a fast-moving experience.  
 
This image also includes a Matrix like background…but the opposite colour than what is seen in the film and with wingdings embedded as the code. After doing a little research on chess notation systems I was flabbergasted by the variety of systems and their alien quality to someone like me who is not familiar with them.  This seemed like a computer code…a bunch of unintelligible alphanumeric figures that we know lurk behind our favorite applications. That plays into my interest in the difference between transparency and opacity (discussed in some earlier posts).  Of course, my code had to be wingdings and, as in previous work, it does hide a sentence.