As an avid people watcher, I strive to reimagine everyday interactions through glorifying the stratified detail that lives twisted within whispers of overheard conversations and glimpses of observed expressions. Animation as a practice allows me to exaggerate the intricacies of the human face and note changing expressions on a frame-by-frame basis. Just as drawing reshapes life with its own array of infinite lines, animating offers a single moment the potential to live for hours, as it is broken down into a series of tiny internal fractions. I find that the physical manipulation involved in creating figures with wet clay, the pressure from fingerprints that makes its mark permanent over time, aligns with the way in which lived experiences can give finalized shape to perceptions that were once dynamic, impressionable, and forgiving. Fearing such a state of becoming stubbornly solidified, I am interested in using animation and its range of temporality to present figures that can progress through multiple forms.
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