Bamboo in the wind – an experiment in animation
This is an experiment! TO SEE THE VIDEO CLICK ON THE TITLE ABOVE.
in September I’ve been invited to exhibit an installation relating to my art-work. this is to be held in a gallery that used to be a bank. The old vault, a space 2×2 metres, has been allocated to this display. I shall project the animation onto the back wall in a darkened area.
In the video I hope to illustrate development of an image beginning with the introduction of an X-ray and moving through the layering of different elements – the collage. For me this has meant learning two different animation programs – Adobe Flash, and Adobe After Effects.
The video shown here starts with a person with emphysema due to years of smoking who developed lung cancer. Emphysema causes progressive destruction of lung tissue with loss of respiratory reserve and progressive inability to breathe. Even in the absence of cancer as a complicating factor emphysema is a prolonged, potentially fatal condition.The collage blends three natural elements related to the air we breathe, the sea, green leaves (bamboo and a gum-tree) and bubbles floating on fast moving water. Each represents part of the patho-physiology of this disease.
Through the bitter-sweet quality of these images I’d like to give an impression of the many impacts, both positive and negative that medicine has had on me over the years and how art has become my catharsis.
I am not sure what the final video that is to be presented in September will look like, but it will contain elements from this one which has been an exciting journey in itself. There is yet a long way to go.
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