Reshoot-new footage from piece from Spring 2022. WIP, sample of a ‘palette’ of  body clusters.

Themes of gravity, surrender, endurance, play, the absurd. Animation outside of the studio. Polyphony in terms of multiples and movement.

 

 

Response to an assignment from theory readings Eye and Mind and The Sublime and the Avant-Garde. Thinking about  contradiction, and how a body in a space can be interpreted. Play/sacredness (pain/pleasure) as well as a continued exploration of performance and aliveness,  aliveness as the countering of gravity.

Exploration of a two channel idea, thinking of animation.

Rough cut of exploration of process, as well as performance. The body as subject/object, traditional art practices, play, fracture. (Separately the idea of Motherhood and fracture is brewing)

 

Animation WIP exploration of pixelation, multiples, replacement animation, lens, time

 

Read : Vibrant Matters Jane  Bennett

Metaphors We Live By  George Lakoff

Eye and Mind Merleau-Ponty

The Sublime and The Avant-Garde  Lyotard

Instructions on Not Giving Up
Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.