04 Animated Video



This final project was to be displayed at Verna Miller Case Symposium, so it was meant to be a video from 30-60 seconds. In this piece I wanted to continue to think about my associations with quilts. I went through many iterations with the video trying different experiments. The consistent idea I followed was utilizing text in the work. I asked my peers to send me things that made them uncomoftable and I used that list in my work. I was thinking about artists like Jenny Holzer and how she incorperates text. I then had the quilt geometry cover up the words to show comfort for the uncomfortable. However, in the end the the geometry becomes distorted so the words shine through again. This is meant to show how what leaves us uncomfortable remains as a persistent thread in our life. 



This was my initial variation where I used media from my original 15 variations to act as the fabric for the quilt squares. I then used procreate to animate over the square that I had made. After talking to my peers, we agreed it would be more compelling to have the quilt geometry itself in motion. 

This inspired me to reach out to my friends to ask them for things that make them uncomfortable. I was inpspired to do this because of a Vanessa German collaboration with Mount Holyoke College. I then wanted to actually incorperate the text like Jenny Holzer does in digital works. 
I played around a lot with animating collage pieces and adding shapes that distorted over it. In the end though, I felt like the text aspect was the strongest part, so I wanted to emphasize those ideas more. I used the text to almost form it’s own textile. I thought simplicity would be better, so I used just white quilt geometry. 

Bibliography

Holzer, Jenny. LEDs Accessed May 1st, 2024. https://projects.jennyholzer.com/LEDs Digital artist who uses a lot of text in her work. Many times the text will scroll across the screen like in my work.

Woolfalk, Saya. The Floating World of the Cloud Quilt.Accessed May 2nd, 2024. http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/new-page-4 Brings the ideas of quiltmaking to a virtual setting like I tried to do in my work. I appreciate how she uses digital tools to enhance the ideas of quilts.

Faig, Ahmed.Accessed May 1st, 2024. https://faigahmed.com Takes traditional craft and distorts traditional understanding of the medium like I do with quilts.

“16 mm Film Quilt Series (2009 - 2018).”Gschwandtner, Sabrina. Artwork. Accessed May 1st, 2024.https://www.sabrinag.com/filmquilts Artist who connects quilts to digital contexts by composing them from rolls of film. Inspirational because it shows different utilization of quilt geometry and makes me think about the quilts associations with memory.

Accola Griefen Fine Art. “Gina Adams” .Accessed May 1st, 2024. http://accolagriefen.com/artists/gina-adams#!image-1   Artist who combines vintage quilts and text together to create meaning. Additionally, her work shows an awareness to the context and history quilts are reminscent of.



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