This may just be the most artistically impressive thing I have seen all year. It definitely is the most creative time-lapse I have ever seen, hands down. This film took 300,000 photos, riots, wildfires, paintings in abandoned houses, two years and zero graphics to make. It changed my entire life. Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an exploration of the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing. The destruction end of that thought began in earnest when riots broke out in my neighborhood in Anaheim, California, 2012. I immediately climbed onto my landlords roof without asking and began recording the unfolding events. The news agencies I contacted had no idea what to do with time lapse footage of riots, which was okay with me because I had been thinking about recontextualizing news as art for some time. After that I got the bug. I chased down wildfires, walked down storm drains on the L.A. River and found abandoned houses where I could set up elaborate optical illusion paintings. The illusion part of the paintings are not an end in themselves in my work. Theyre an intimation of things we cant physically detect; a way to get an ever so slight edge on the unknowable. vimeo/106181453
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:00:26 +0000
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