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This is a space for sharing insights into my process. It’s important to document development; publicly available content is a great way to maintain self-criticism

Fish & Bird | Prelim

creating a new visual approach I needed something to base the content of my development piece on; in this situation, it's a good idea to pick an existing work of art, a non-visual piece - a poem, book or song - to provide the emotional content freeing you to focus solely on the visual / making aspects

I chose Fish & Bird by Tom Waits, out of a collection of songs spanning five decades I always felt this song would suit an assemblage-style animation (I started imagining this well over a decade ago)

Seeing as I consider this a sketch - a proof of concept - I didn't commit to retelling the entire song, this is why I truncated the track and why I haven't polished certain edits, loops and other details; I was more concerned with investigating the process, workflows, outcomes and mediums etc to be utilised in my future personal work

Rachel’s

With its mix of imagined narrative and personal experiences, this primogenitor piece - flaws and all - marks the start of more personal work in tone and subject. It's also the beginning of exploring ways to combine traditional methods into the digital space

Her Choice

Society's appetite to dictate what women can/can't do with their bodies has always been bizarre to me; the intention behind this early piece was to speak to the chaos theory where a tiny moment can influence larger changes (as often illustrated in the concept of a butterfly flapping its wings)

I'm still fond of the use of type here, the mop marker is one of the many tools of graffiti that I like to incorporate into my work. Plus, ❤ the animated marks also

UltraViolet

Inspired by the deep neural networks (DNNs) technology found in facial recognition software, and how it can be subverted using abstract imagery, this early digital painting sees me mixing figurative and abstract marks

Xue Lin's paper ↆↆ
Adversarial T-shirt! Evading Person Detectors in A Physical World