“No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering” – Hellraiser (1987)
Tag: Winnipeg
Painting has been an integral part of my practice. I enjoy the process; dipping my brush and letting the paint find it’s way around the canvas. A way to decompress, sort through new ideas and see the world in a different way.
My last post about Night of the Living Dead got me thinking about how our perception changes over time. Night of the Living Dead is such an iconic and groundbreaking film, a “new dawn in Horror Film-making”. And in the wake of our current political and social climate, Night of the Living Dead really exemplifies how our perception radically changes, and how one film can exist in two planes at the same time.
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.
Coming soon
Grainy Vhs footage in my studio, late at night. Images flicker and cut into each other and urge you to look deeper, as the drone of voices and noise build and build…
Always after a rain, always with rolling clouds overhead; the city looks so beautiful on a rainy night.
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*
On a recent trip back home to see my family, I felt inspired to shoot some video with my mom. We were casually talking about creativity and what we find inspiring as artists and I said “today is inspiring, right now is inspiring”. We decided to go out for a walk, to look and listen to our immediate surroundings. My mom wanted to contemplate her surroundings in this moment, and I wanted to play with my steadicam. So this little snippet came to life.
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