3D Scan Studies (2020–present) is an ongoing series of paintings and works on paper derived from provisional assemblages constructed from found objects, fragments, and discarded materials. The works materialize through a recursive process of assembly, scanning, translation, and subsequent reconstruction in paint. Physical arrangements are first transformed through low-resolution 3D scanning, where compression artefacts, missing information, distortions, and surface irregularities serve as active compositional elements. These degraded translations are then reworked through painting as acts of approximation, fragmentation, and partial recovery.
The series investigates how already degraded objects persist through mediation, informational loss, and technical-manual transformation, emphasizing residue, instability, and incomplete access rather than coherent representation. Some works are executed in oil, where layered opacity and material density reinforce the accumulative structure of the assemblages, while others use watercolour to foreground dissolution, translucency, and dispersal.
Sasha Opeiko 