The animation, Estranged, reflects gestures and line drawings made by a group of artists in response to the words,
You feel the word
lives for the first time
estranged
as soon as it is spoken.
words:
Jack Ward
Mawson Diary, January 1955
drawings:
Meredith Lucy
John Smith
Rena Czaplinska,
Yoris Everaerts,
Lisa Roberts
Sydney, 2007
sound: Jon Hizzard
Flinders Island 2003
.
wispy
ghostly
eery
emerging
windy
visual sonic manifestation
making
thinking objects
moving through a landscapeThe animation evokes a human(?)
presence rising out of the ice of antarctica
but the figure is transformed
into a primordial anthopomorphic wind creature
giving birth to icicles, wind and other objects.
The sound echoes what is happening in the animation
and adds to that etheriality
(is there such a word?)
of the experience.I think the animation achieves a represenation
of the etherial nature
of the weather on antartica,
one minute calm the next alll hell breaks loose.
Peter Charuk
Sydney, 9 July 2008
Acting on the assumption that the subject
is to do with Antarctica,
the animation reminds me
that Antarctica is made up largely
of flowing ice, air and water.BUT I believe that the description of a subject in art
should have a great deal of intrinsic value
which springs from the artist’s own vision/thinking.
I have great touble in my classes
trying to make some of them realise
that they should interpret rather than copy.SO I sat running your animation
through and through many times and,
apart from the music which I found a bit distracting,
I found it a mesmerising expereience in its own right,
as well as telling me something
of your personal Antarctica.
Sensuous, I think is a good word
with maybe a touch of sensuality as well.
Fred Elliott
Melbourne, 7 July 2008