Two shots of a new piece I am working on. It’s not quite done yet…or maybe it is. I decided to leave it for a few days, put the brush down, step back from the painting and let the ideas settle into the canvas.
Tag: studiolife
Laying down some practice shots. Canon RP mounted on Dji rsc2.
Last week I woke up and the city was covered in the most gorgeous blanket of fog. I grabbed my camera and ventured out to take some photos in the haze.
Newlight ~ 2023
Preview of new work: Decolonizing the analog medium through a digital space: Not by narrative or subject, but through reconstruction.
Yellow, cyan and magenta wash over the digital flow to create the idea of a film negative, windows become the perforations, and the vertical movement indicates film threaded through the light of a projector. Low hum vibrations echo the sounds of the mechanical device.
Inspired by Stan Brakhage “Mothlight” with the idea of grief as motivation, and giving life through new processes.
Night of the Living Dead, but make it Rorschach. As soon as I learned that NOTLD was public domain, I took the entire original film, layered, mirrored, and sped it up to fit into a tidy 30 seconds. Its giving me Event Horizon hell-in-space sequence, but whatever the feeling I really like how this looks and sounds (I played with the reverb a bunch to get the nightmare-ish audio)
Working on a new piece at my studio and it’s coming together so nicely. I use a lot of dry brush technique to get my blending game strong, so I’m really stoked with how this one looks. A few more layers and it’ll be ready.
A few pics from today. I travelled home, quick day-trip to my hometown and was it ever beautiful. Nice to see after a long winter. *Shot with my Canon Rp*
My video work is always a reflection of my experience and where I have come from. My regional experience is both rural and urban and these spaces continue to fill my creative well. Images are overlayed and reflect on each other how beautiful, unfamiliar and overwhelming this experience can be.
Screenshots from a work in progress.
My studio is located in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, in the historic Exchange District. The area is a hub for restaurants, galleries and all things arts related. Some nights the area is full with the hustle and sounds of people moving through the streets and sidewalks. Other nights it is a ghost town. No matter what the mood, I love being perched up on the 4th floor of my building listening, seeing and absorbing all the eclectic energy. It engages my creativity, being in this neighbourhood and I look forward to spending 2022 here in my studio.
Overlayed footage from a sunny afternoon sometime in July. As fall gets cooler and gloomier, it’s fun to look back on footage that I’ve shot and revisit warmer times.
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