I felt myself getting into a rut again with the stamped arrow drawings, but had a breakthrough on Wednesday this week. I’d always had in my mind that I could use this stamping process along with an animation process, so I had a go at photographing the drawings I’d made – panning across the surface of the drawing and seeing how that looks as a video.
I’ve projected those videos back onto the drawings and am quite excited about the combination. I think there’s going to be some mileage in how the still paper interacts with the moving projection. I was at the Duchamp, Johns, Cage & Rauschenberg exhibition yesterday and among all the other interesting things there, there was a room on presence and absence – there is an interesting parallel between the permanence of the print and the temporariness of the projection and how they interact.
This morning I’ve made a drawing specifically for projection (although I’ve since played with layering it within the video edit) and thought I’d share it here. It was quite interesting how making the drawing for projection produced a flow on the paper that I hadn’t tried yet – a way of not thinking about the aesthetic of the drawing too much (another link to seeing the Cage show yesterday maybe?)
Test animation using rubber-stamp drawings.
