Go with your original instinct. This piece has been all about trying to figure out what is isn’t, in reverse order to my frustration. It’s been a challenge to my expectations and methodologies.
1. It’s not about me personally.
2. It is about the absurd.
3. It is about the action and decision of choosing to interact with a specific object.
4. What I ask is considered but not my ultimate goal or attention.
5. The incongruous within humour.
The absurd and futility of everything. Using the 8 ball as a tool for divination with no expectations whatsoever.
Items: questions // magic 8 ball // anxiety
My first foray into incorporating written text into my digital video practice. It’s proving interesting. Having put text with the moving image through editing I realised that I don’t think it’s working. I can’t really tell how exactly but it just feels wrong and it’s not doing what I want it to.
Today I recorded my voice reading along a series of questions I want answered or that I think about in terms of my life. These are slowly being modified as I revisit them over again. The moment I was done with the recording and into the sound studio to edit it felt different. The spoken word now adds another very personal and accessible dimension to the footage that I don’t think was there previously. It become more about an individual than an interaction with an object.
I think I am getting bogged down with the different elements in the piece, like it’s become too complicated and what I want to communicate is becoming lost.
