About Series
Transparency is a conceptual art series by Toron Smith in partnership with Vecxi that surveys the correlation of society, advancement, and our seemingly complicated relationship with the divinely inspired. The collection also engages in commentary on the convergence of digital connectivity in the late twentieth century through the present. The viewer is invited to decode meaning or lack thereof, consequently participating in self-reflection through decryption.
Artworks are transposed on digital layers and designed to be constructed as instructed, in collaboration with producers to complete each conceptual piece. The series utilizes both vector and raster formatting, ensuring a variance of visual reproduction outcomes depending on the medium used in order to transition the works from a digital platform to a physical state.
Work Details
Artist: Toron Smith
Title: Apple_A_Day_2
Medium: Digital vector
Year: 2025
Edition: Open
Dimension: Vector infinite
File Size: 1.6MB
File Format: EPS
Production Instructions
Apple_A_Day_2 is the second artwork presented in the ongoing Transparency series by Toron Smith. There are 3 vector layers in total, distinguished by multiple CMYK matchable Pantones. Image 1 showcases the primary foreground graphic on three PMS color codes. Middle Image 2 highlights a single graphic using a metallic silver PMS. Image 3 with two PMS colors is the penultimate layer, representing the foundational visual for the icon. The optional fourth and final background layer, signified in black or white, is not included and used as a contrast reference for the finished concept. Apple_A_Day_2 (Transparency) should be physically produced, preferably sourcing from the purchasers’ regional network of small business manufacturers. Please develop on transparent film, acrylic glass, or similar glass mediums. The final layered piece is to be displayed using visually complementing and contemporary acrylic glass framing.
The Artist
Toron Smith is an artist and designer whose work explores the intersectionality of visual communication, digital design, and physical production. His current series Transparency draws influence from societal advancement, scriptural texts, and the convolution of coexistence between the divinely inspired and cultural progressive. Works are digitally created, primarily in layers, representing mostly legible universal symbols compressed into a single visual plane around the guise of the mundane. The viewer is invited to decode meaning in the work, decoding the ominous from the everyday, thus transitioning the gaze beyond the foreground of interpretation. The owner of the conceptual artwork is granted the most transparent clarity, as they have access to each individual digital layer, in many cases.
Having grown up in the 90s, Smith considers himself amongst the last generation to experience the convergence of the analog world and the digital present. His work reflects an origin and fondness of pre-internet tactility alongside an adoption of post-internet possibility. Educated in the communication arts, with a career practiced between design and marketing industries, Toron most recently struck a creative balance between his interpretation of a communal past in relation to a digitally driven future. Specifically, his work of the past decade as an artist who reimagined retro aesthetics into modern memorabilia directly ushered in his current era of reconciliation.
Smith’s series with Vecxi ultimately surveys the conceptual relationship between communication and misinterpretation. He creates a world where the creator relies on the collector, who in turn collaborates with producers in order to complete the artwork. It’s creativity by committee. Intangibly passing the baton along the ideation process until the artwork is received in tangible format. Transparency represents a cycle of work created with the intention of questioning intention and involving many hands along the way to best interpret content with clarity. Toron posits that this is digital artwork as meant to be consumed, in-between layers of participation.
About Series
Transparency is a conceptual art series by Toron Smith in partnership with Vecxi that surveys the correlation of society, advancement, and our seemingly complicated relationship with the divinely inspired. The collection also engages in commentary on the convergence of digital connectivity in the late twentieth century through the present. The viewer is invited to decode meaning or lack thereof, consequently participating in self-reflection through decryption.
Artworks are transposed on digital layers and designed to be constructed as instructed, in collaboration with producers to complete each conceptual piece. The series utilizes both vector and raster formatting, ensuring a variance of visual reproduction outcomes depending on the medium used in order to transition the works from a digital platform to a physical state.
Work Details
Artist: Toron Smith
Title: Apple_A_Day_2
Medium: Digital vector
Year: 2025
Edition: Open
Dimension: Vector infinite
File Size: 1.6MB
File Format: EPS
Production Instructions
Apple_A_Day_2 is the second artwork presented in the ongoing Transparency series by Toron Smith. There are 3 vector layers in total, distinguished by multiple CMYK matchable Pantones. Image 1 showcases the primary foreground graphic on three PMS color codes. Middle Image 2 highlights a single graphic using a metallic silver PMS. Image 3 with two PMS colors is the penultimate layer, representing the foundational visual for the icon. The optional fourth and final background layer, signified in black or white, is not included and used as a contrast reference for the finished concept. Apple_A_Day_2 (Transparency) should be physically produced, preferably sourcing from the purchasers’ regional network of small business manufacturers. Please develop on transparent film, acrylic glass, or similar glass mediums. The final layered piece is to be displayed using visually complementing and contemporary acrylic glass framing.
The Artist
Toron Smith is an artist and designer whose work explores the intersectionality of visual communication, digital design, and physical production. His current series Transparency draws influence from societal advancement, scriptural texts, and the convolution of coexistence between the divinely inspired and cultural progressive. Works are digitally created, primarily in layers, representing mostly legible universal symbols compressed into a single visual plane around the guise of the mundane. The viewer is invited to decode meaning in the work, decoding the ominous from the everyday, thus transitioning the gaze beyond the foreground of interpretation. The owner of the conceptual artwork is granted the most transparent clarity, as they have access to each individual digital layer, in many cases.
Having grown up in the 90s, Smith considers himself amongst the last generation to experience the convergence of the analog world and the digital present. His work reflects an origin and fondness of pre-internet tactility alongside an adoption of post-internet possibility. Educated in the communication arts, with a career practiced between design and marketing industries, Toron most recently struck a creative balance between his interpretation of a communal past in relation to a digitally driven future. Specifically, his work of the past decade as an artist who reimagined retro aesthetics into modern memorabilia directly ushered in his current era of reconciliation.
Smith’s series with Vecxi ultimately surveys the conceptual relationship between communication and misinterpretation. He creates a world where the creator relies on the collector, who in turn collaborates with producers in order to complete the artwork. It’s creativity by committee. Intangibly passing the baton along the ideation process until the artwork is received in tangible format. Transparency represents a cycle of work created with the intention of questioning intention and involving many hands along the way to best interpret content with clarity. Toron posits that this is digital artwork as meant to be consumed, in-between layers of participation.
