close up image of 48" x 24" x 1.5" watercolor/paper/acrylic medium on canvas
ID: layered pieces of paper painted with watercolor paints which are each cut out into abstract shapes of varying sizes.
from Family at the Beach
VD: Archival footage of a family at a beach drags across the screen, layered on top of another section of the same footage. Yet another section of the recording is placed as a small frame toward the bottom right corner.
from In my hands (film/video, fibre)
ID: a still image from a film shows Bec hanging two rectangular knitted tapestries with white backgrounds and colorful geometric shapes on the side of a roof.
from Rivky
VD: A GIF taken from an experimental film showing a heavily distorted and abstracted clip of the filmmaker as a baby taking a bath. The baby appears as a shimmering blob of beige and brown.
ID: a grid of four images of abstract oil paintings. All have white backgrounds and contain mostly abstract lines and shapes in dull colors. Colors are yellow, pink, orange, reds, blues, and black. The top left painting differs a bit from the others, showing the numbers “1” and “2” in black boxy lettering. The two bottom paintings include painted lips in only black and white. The top right painting includes a painted hand, held up and severed from its body.
from As one
VD: Two pieces of footage observing of the same landscape: rolling hills in the distance topped by a blue sky with sparse clouds. The footage filling the entire screen has better definition, taken by the filmmaker with a camera a decade old. A much smaller frame rests at the center which was taken the same day but with a camera another decade older.
ID: four images in a grid of collages created from abstract watercolor paintings which were then deconstructed digitally and reorganized into what look like a fairly random assortments of shapes and colors.
Justin Smith in How to Care for Strangers
VD: Justin, wearing satin green pajamas and light pink eyeshadow, looks to his side at Elizabeth (off-screen) with a surprised and disappointed expression. He then looks away with a hurt affect. Behind him are pieces of poly-fill crafted to look like DIY clouds.
interactive exhibition (2019) London, UK
ID: the back wall of a gallery is almost entirely glass. The glass is covered in drawings and paintings which are disjointed and multicolored, all created by different people who visited the gallery and contributed to while socializing.
from Carry me in
VD: a hand reaches into frame gentle gripping and lifting some small rocks of the ground. It is made visible that this is over-scanned 16mm film footage.
from A line
VD: a simple hand-drawn animation of a line slowly moving into a vague circular shape. Using pen an white printer paper.
RestFest Film Festival
ID: Black text on a white background says ‘watch films, attend events, find community, entirely from bed. August 15th - 22nd, 2024. RestFest Film Festival, created by/for Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill, and or mad community.’ Between the lines of text is a black and white collage of images from films in the 2024 RestFest Film Festival Program including (left to right in rows): a person laying in bed, a person raising his arm toward a stop sign, two people leaning into one another, someone in a tyvek suit, a person laying on their stomach, the Szechenyi Baths, a young person looking into the distance, an arm held by a nurse’s hand, a drawing of a person with sweat dripping down, a hand holding up a circuit board, a person in a swimsuit and swim cap screaming, a CGI-created person with a straight face, a person’s face on a cell phone screen, three individual’s faces looking forward, a person shaving their head with a full-body image of a person behind them. At the bottom of the poster is a QR code and the tag @restfestfilmfestival and the url restfestfilmfestival.org.
Elizabeth Grabham in How to Care for Strangers
VD: Elizabeth, wearing a yellow raincoat and sparkles on her face, is shown in close-up and then in a medium shot with a surprised affect looking around. She stands in the corner of a room entirely painted pink.
from Sonata of 1800
ID: A still image from a film shows a camera’s recording of a screen showing archival footage. The original footage shows a bridge from the side. The image is clearly very low definition, creating vertical lines which make the image appear almost like corduroy.
from I am Waiting/Acceleration
ID: a still image from a film shows a man holding his hand up to a very old computer-like screen holding a stylus. His long-sleeve white shirt is replaced by a black and white, archival image of a city.