BOW A3: Early formats/ideas/sketches

I have been working with some images I took in the Summer in Italy. And I keep returning to them. I feel like for now, they are the best and most accessible material suggestive of the themes I am exploring.

Although I hurriedly (relatively) created a short sequence of them and added them to my newish website I kept going back to them as they are really expressing something of what I am exploring – a seismic and profound overall of how we relate to the reality of which we are a part* – and I wanted to explore them further. I made these alongside the images I submitted for A2.

I am still thinking about creating, as suggested, a poetry book of images and text, and perhaps making a film to go alongside it.

I can envisage showing these various elements as objects in a scaled-up ‘reenactment’ of the way film is structured: i.e. frame after frame after frame. I am playing with the dismantling of a simulation – one that has been building for centuries.

I am a very long way from something yet – and also considering how I can bring found and original images together but here are two early testing-out examples of ideas I am playing with.

In DI&C A2 the work came about due to chance as I did not plan each and every animation carefully – I think I even wrote that I sort of metaphorically threw both films up in the air and then took a look at what occurred – I think that is how I need to work with any material I find  – perhaps watching how these images work alongside an old Macdonalds training video I found – looking for odd combinations.

Or else is this set of images and title one of a collection of ‘poems’ to be included and compiled together? I don’t know yet.

Working draft The Undoing 2 – 

The Undoing – draft cont.

*Note the double meaning   – ‘of which we are a part’. This phrase excellently captures how we are both part and a part  – separate and enmeshed at the same time. Some people see one and others the other – there is a war being waged between the two world-views.