In Between Frames

In Between Frames is a work, out of a series, that explores the fundamentals of animated motion through simple repetition. The series investigates the metamorphosis of a form re-produced and generated under set constraints that yield unlimited variables. All images are created using a flatbed scanner. The digital interpretations, though distorted, are a reminder of the technologies that are fundamental for such transcriptions, and experimental practices, which are at the heart of the history of cinema and the moving image.

Coming from a background in drawing and painting I recognize a lot of my work to be an extension to observational drawing. The advent of the camera has revealed realities in ways Leonardo da Vinci’s pencil could never have. Seconds have replaced the hours and sometimes days it might have taken to capture an image. Technologies have innovated the physical pallet and have introduced unconventional methods to art making and research. The digital transcription of the handmade mark, a dot on a piece of paper, can now be amplified into hundreds or thousands of pixels on a screen, bringing us closer to the bits and pieces, and the geometries which are fundamental to time, motion, form, and space. As a result, the questions surrounding the nature of our existence have also evolved and have given birth to new ideas and focus of inquiry.

The work informs the subject matter outside the conventional parameters of research and practice. Unfamiliar approaches and new mediums introduce the unknown and take away predetermined models and predictions that seem to restrict the element of surprise.