I am exploring the possibilities of a pictorial interface: An oceanic view
You can rollover and click on the drawing to animate some of its elements. As I develop this, these elements will lead you to animations that reflect an Oceanic view of Antarctica, that conveys a sense that everything is connected with everything else.
This will show you Antarctic animations from a dream-like perspective. Links from this drawing will be made very loosely, associating forms and gestures.
In 2006 I traveled to Italy. I stayed in a small town called Malcinese on Lake Garda.
Italy had just won a world soccer match. The hot summer night was filled with the sound of celebrations.
In the morning I woke to make this drawing of a dream. It combines the feeling of noise and heat with some words I had read the night before, from Darwin’s Introduction to his Origin of Species:
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull, and was undoubtedly a hermaphrodite.
I agree with Danielle Boutet, who writes:
Through art making, I experience an intensification of my consciousness and of the feeling that the world is meaningful. This way of being in the world and perceiving its underlying coherence—a coherence of which we are an integral component—brings about a sense of our presence and matter’s presence. We perceive matter as living and vibrating, as no longer inert. We experience matter as presence, anchored in significance. This is an ontological perspective for which there can be no proof; no argument or discourse can make someone else feel it too. It comes from experience, the encounter with embodied and materialized work. It arises from contemplation rather than from observation and measurement.
Spiritual Forms: notes for Thinking about Art and Spirituality, 2008
Collision: Collecting Paradox