Making Landfall 2020
Hand-drawn experimental animation.
HD 1920 x 1080 1 min 28secs
2020 Visions at the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK
Images: Courtesy Nunnery Gallery, photos by Rob Harris
HD 1920 x 1080 1 min 28secs
2020 Visions at the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK
Images: Courtesy Nunnery Gallery, photos by Rob Harris
This mixed media experimental animation film explores transience and perceptual ambiguity. Using a hand drawn aesthetic, it defies immediate comprehension of place and offers no fixed point of view. An unstable horizon disappears early on creating an unstable sense of place and a feeling of disorientation. The intention has been to create a viewing process that will challenge the quick glance through the investigation of depth/flatness and representation/abstraction.
Art historian TJ Clarke refers to the characterisation of landscape in the landscape tradition as a process identifying familiarity and unfamiliarity – with the natural world having a non-identity and thus being unfamiliar. How easily humans can make their way in a landscape signals its degree of unfamiliarity (ie absence of trails, roads etc). In this animation I aim to metaphorically dissolve any semblance of a traditional way or path and nudge the viewer to navigate by non-linear means.
This animation was made with the assistance of an Artist Support Award from Wicklow Co Council Arts Office, Ireland.
Art historian TJ Clarke refers to the characterisation of landscape in the landscape tradition as a process identifying familiarity and unfamiliarity – with the natural world having a non-identity and thus being unfamiliar. How easily humans can make their way in a landscape signals its degree of unfamiliarity (ie absence of trails, roads etc). In this animation I aim to metaphorically dissolve any semblance of a traditional way or path and nudge the viewer to navigate by non-linear means.
This animation was made with the assistance of an Artist Support Award from Wicklow Co Council Arts Office, Ireland.
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