I neglected the blog… again! Then I remembered the blog (face palm). Without delay I will now update! Here are some images from what has been keeping my busy! And brief description.
Art school is great this year. I’ve moved on from my previous project Hattie Mouse, which was a picture book challenging the “overly educational” and “commercial” forms of children’s entertainment. To making a film-ish project.
This year I am still working with narratives, but I am making a traditional cell animated film. The film is a response to “Hikikomori” which you can go read about here.
The project aims to slow down experience so as to acknowledge the beauty and fleeting sadness of life (in the natural world), mono no aware[1]. This is used as a means to shift ones mind-set to a more positive perception of the world around us and by doing so, lead to a re-engagement with life.
The work contextualizes itself within “The Slow Movement,” and “The New Domesticity.” The film embodies a strong sense of nostalgia, and it is through this that viewers may be inspired to examine their own pasts in hopes of working towards a better quality of life in their futures.
So yeah, the work will be on display in the SITE exhibition at the end of the year in November at the DSA. Dates will be announced later.
In other news, we had a show to raise funds towards out projects called the “Don’t Stop” show. It was concerned with multiples and small scale works. I made a zine on how to do vintage hair styles (might do a post on this). Also put in some prints from the film and a few framed portraits of the Hattie Mouse characters from last year.
Allrighty, over and out!
[1] Richie, Donald. “The Tractate,” In A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics. New York: Stone Bridge Press, 2009.
The third year carries on. With only a month or so before Site 2014 the school has become busier than before. Things are falling into place with my film work, which is cool. Though I have discovered, that after painting trees for months the sea is a complete mystery to me. However, think I will probably work with the backgrounds I have made for scene four anyway and see how they work once projected. I got given the option of my chosen room for Site, provided I share it with another student as a screening room set up. That’ll work so I’m happy! I’d like to finish the work a little early if I can so as to give myself time to step back from it, and then come at it fresh for some critical editing.
The Goody Tin 