The subject of a language has appeared in my current art practice many times, however, in my own understanding, it is neither the system of signs and symbols nor spoken word, but more like an unrestricted exchange of information of any form, opened to all the unlimited subjective explanations.
Another definition is a process, where from a possible idea of starting this ‘exchange’ (let’s call it ‘thought’ to help the mind with the imagination) followed by an act, we would get to the point of its inevitable end.
I tend to over-explain my mind and after re-reading whatever I write it makes even less sense. So I will try to be less chaotic in the explosion of my thoughts and dive deeper into the segments that are helping me to answer many questions within my art practice.
These two photographs are a part of the first photography series I’d like to think about as ‘Collaboration of Natural Elements’ although, they are still untitled because they’re studies. To create the photographs I needed the landscape to be in very specific conditions, including the wind blowing, and the sun reflecting but daylight not being that strong. In general, these photographs are about movements. All the tiny little movements that we are surrounded by, but we are too ‘focused’ to pay attention to.
The interesting thing about this is that those very first photographs set the direction of my art practice for my second year at the university. So there is no correct order in conceptual practice, and therefore not always is the thought that comes first.
I’ve had the opportunity to capture something so natural and yet visually technological(or even futuristic). My aim was to compress the time, compress the notion of a process that started, lasted, and ended. If it makes sense and if it is successful, are not the important questions right now.
I am intrigued by the complexity of this concept while waiting for the wind to move my surroundings.
This post will be about creating animations from the photographs I take in nature. The title Re-animation of the Stopped Motion very simply describes my process of how I am trying to work this out. The photographs I´ve taken, and also mentioned in the previous post are longer exposure photographs, approximately 2 seconds long. By exposing the landscape for a couple of seconds, I am capturing the natural movements. But in this post what´s more important is the compression of the time in the photographs put again in a digital motion in the animation. Here is one of the photographs from the last post for illustration.
RE-ANIMATIONS
The process of re-animation has brought to my work many new ideas and thoughts. Instead of just capturing the landscape, I started to think about building one, also it made me think about digitalizing the landscape and trying not to push back the digital aspects in my work because I realized that I quite like it. Here is one of the first animations, around 6 seconds long, preferably played on the loop.
Please use this link to see the animation on YouTube. https://youtu.be/Bn2vU6iQ1do
The movement is not fluid, but you know that is still there. I think the digital almost glitchy movements work really well with the light drawings created by the synthetic materials that I used to capture the movement.
The second animation is slightly different. The animation itself is a series of 12 photographs 4 times on the loop and with each round, the image zooms in a bit. I plan to experiment further with the animations by studying the reflectiveness of the light, scale, projection, and length of the animations.
Please use this link to see the animation on YouTube. https://youtu.be/BY8YoupfOCo
I like the investigative part of my work, sometimes when I am just standing behind the camera on a tripod and waiting for the trees to move. Sometimes I can get bored too, so it is not always an entertaining process, but at least it clears my head.
