"Just One Moment is a volatile scene. The storm of figures seem angry and read as hostile bullies to each other. There is a clockwise movement though that sweeps through the crowd and into a more motherly figure that hovers above the fray. Judgment, pain, fear, frustration, love, empathy, and caring exist simultaneously. It is a scene showing the chaos of a single moment, but also the temporality of such a moment. It engages the idea of flux and the impermanence of hardship." - Siobhan Hebron

Just One Moment is about all the different thoughts and feelings that can go on in one's mind in just one moment. The Augmented Reality features animation, interactivity, and music by composer Christian Laszlo. In AR the figures come out into 3D space. Each figure or “emotional state” becomes animated and a different musical gesture is played by tapping on them.

Download the free application to view the Augmented Reality (AR) elements of the work: https://apple.co/3yzpVUY

Daniel Leighton is an Augmented Reality artist, iPad painter, filmmaker, and technologist who started programming at the age of eleven. Having Crohn’s Disease since birth, Leighton faced his mortality from a very young age. Countless invasive procedures, hospitalizations and surgeries helped drive him to dive deep into a lifelong quest to understand the workings of his body and his emotions.

Leighton creates emotional portraits with simple lines and brilliant colours to capture complex states of the human psyche, while exploring the possibilities of technology and human emotion being harnessed for the greater good.

Leighton adds Augmented Reality (AR) to his paintings by combining his backgrounds in filmmaking and computer programming. Using the Daniel Leighton Art + AR app, viewers can experience additional dimensions of Daniel’s AR-enhanced paintings.As art critic, Shana Nys Dambrot, says about Daniel’s app, “[it] turns your device into a viewing portal into what it is tempting to describe as a parallel universe.”

Leighton’s work has been featured by Timothy Potts, Director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where he recently spoke. His most recent exhibition was at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) from April – June, 2018.