VIDEO AND STOP-MOTION

In my recent video and stop-motion animation projects, I attempt to give form to the emotional experience of living through rapid cultural change in the digital age. 
In “What is Actually Happening Now,” I reflect on the intensity of living in a hyper-connected world and the potential for complete disconnection from reality.  This piece incorporates stop-motion animation with clay, a series of cast plaster molds, and layers of video and sound.
“Reciprocal,” a short stop-motion piece depicting a relational moment between two rough clay figures, perhaps mother and child, is born of changing views across generations about the harm to all involved of casual violence, no matter the form.
I am appreciative of the work of artist Peter Campus, who used video as a medium to look intensely inward and to investigate the nature of the self.  Having also studied psychology, I share a curiosity and desire to give visual form to that which is mined from my own existential concerns.  Also, like Campus in his later work, I come back to the natural world as a source of simplicity, calm and truth.