creative process examples

Animating a still image, Repurposing Art

When brainstorming ideas for He Whose Ox is Gored's "Magazina", I knew I wanted footage with a lot of urban textures. As I walked around the city with my camera, I recalled how I had already taken a bunch of urban texture photos for an art project a couple years back. The images were for a massive collage as part of an installation for the 2013 Lo-Fi Arts Festival (on a retired farm north of Seattle). The piece was an intertwining of two local invasive species, human urban sprawl and the Himalayan blackberry growing everywhere in the area.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find the original photos for the collage, but I did have one detail shot taken of the piece once it was hung. Animating this one image became the main input for the visual, plus footage of my camera following lines of graffiti.