I admire painful and laborious process, the more the better. Traditionally drawn animation is a painful process. I am proud when I create an animated "thing". The drawings become alive in a different world that I can't touch, but can observe. I believe that the body only exists in tension and making animations revolving around that idea, makes me feel like a little god.
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I'm really struck by how the concision in your drawings is given a completely different tenor in your animations....and that they can serve as a discrete unit with an articulated hand but give something extra to the whole at the same time. That brings up interesting possibilities in terms of how you can show them [and often your installation choices are sort of still-films anyway....], the intimacy implied not only in your subject matter but in their medium, and what you can reveal/conceal in terms of process....
Joao
So... by finishing a drawing project, you are mastering the mortality you are made aware of by the labor involved? Thus the tension is bridged by work, and the resulting animation is the proof.
I still don't know why you won't show anyone your fly girl video.
I am curious to know how you value the drawings after the animation is finished. If they were lost or destroyed would you feel like the animation was incomplete? I ask because the cohesion is there between the two, yet they are also completely different from each other in a strange way due to their presentation.
for flygirl video go to
http://www.pow-arts.com/
then go to choreography, i am in the sugaride girls.
wow, nice comments and questions. can i use this for my thesis? i will credit you all of course.
joao, i am glad that you brought up the word "intimacy", which was something that i had a hard time describing to other people before.
mike you are definitely right. ryan, i think the drawings are the animation's parents, so i think they will be fine separated. but being together makes them stronger.
A little god is a “Demigod”, and I think that would be a fitting characterization of a creationist.
The last time I viewed your work you where dealing with question of your own personal involvement in the piece. You where using events and objects from your life, but you didn’t include yourself in the animation. The arduous process of creating the animation almost seemed to take over the context of the work. Has there been a resolution to this struggle?
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