Fractured Waters after Klimt transforms a Klimt portrait into a vision submerged in liquid light. The figure seems to breathe underwater, her presence reflected, refracted, and continually remade. This is not the result of AI-driven processing or automated filters. Instead, every distortion and wave has been crafted through handwritten code: custom shader stacks, spectral wave equations, and lens-like refractions designed line by line by the artist. Each moment carries the imprint of intentional coding, a digital handwriting that belongs uniquely to the maker.

The portrait shatters into ripples and then heals, oscillating between figuration and abstraction. Like a mirror disturbed, the work reveals impermanence and renewal, a meditation on how memory and beauty survive in shifting forms. Where Klimt once fused sensuality and ornament in static surfaces, here those qualities are released into time, liquidity, and flux.

By rejecting AI shortcuts, Fractured Waters affirms a human-centered digital craft — an art of precision and authorship. The piece extends Klimt’s legacy into the twenty-first century, not as a copy, but as a living dialogue: a spiritual resonance where the golden age of painting meets the liquid poetics of code.

Format: 4K UHD (3840×2160), 60 fps seamless loop. Created 2025.