A Studio Art Practice
I take ordinary household objects and draw or animate them so they appear to be alive. The resulting paradox generates a tension – a cognitive stretching – that gives rise to curious sensations and unexpected readings of the work.
Coming Near to Hear You
2013
Video projector, media player, USB key with digital file, fleece, and canvas Dimensions variable, duration 23 sec, continuous projection
DRAWING, ANIMATION, VIDEO, STOP-MOTION, INSTALLATION,
SHORT PROSE
We know that they are… not living beings.
We know that they are projections… on a screen.
We know that they are… ‘miracles’ and tricks of technology, that such beings don’t really exist.
But at the same time:
We sense them as alive.
We sense them as moving.
We sense them as existing and even thinking.
– Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Esenstein, qtd in Leyda, 1988:55 as qtd by Paul Wells in Understanding Animation, London: Routledge, 1998. Print edition, p223.
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