Moving Drawing AV Project

As an intermedia artist, "Moving Drawing" is a cross-media project which creates connections between drawing, moving image (or the absence of images), and sound (or silence). Drawing is a heartfelt, body and mind experience that embodies time, place, movement, tactility, and sound. It transcends beyond the creator and the objecthood. In my creative process, I use my left hand to capture uncontrollable camera movements and sounds while my right hand makes marks or erases them. While doing so, I record the gestures of my right hand, the sounds of pencil movements on paper, erasing, sunlight and shadows, the room's ambiance, street sirens, and unpredictable occurrences, such as a bug crawling on the paper. These video and sound recordings, as well as chance encounters from the drawing experiences, are then edited together to take on new contexts and insights. The Moving Drawing Project also explores process and change. It reshapes material and tangible 2D drawings into time-based digital media, edits fragments to reflect and deflect its developments and connections. These works prompt us to contemplate the beauty, loss, and challenges that are part of our shared human experiences. Video art merges technology with creativity, enabling me to explore thoughts, evoke emotions, and spark conversations about contemporary issues. How do I respond to the ambiguities in my everyday life and the impact of conflicts and violence near and far through the language of drawing, video and sound? Additionally, what are my thoughts on the advancement of AI technology, which is already an integral part of our lives? I often zoom in on edits to magnify and transform details, drawing attention to the power of framing, sizing, cropping, and timing. These factors strongly affect image (mis)representations, content, and media filtering. How do these editing strategies influence our visuality and perception of reality? What constitutes the "truth" or "truths" and their blurriness in our divisive and chaotic world?

Moving Drawing 8, 2025

Click the image below to view the Moving Drawing 8 video (July 2025, 2:52 mins). On the right,

the 22"x30" MD8 drawing from Feb 2025 is the completed drawing on which the video is based.

Moving Drawing 7, 2024

Click the image to view the Moving Drawing 7 video (Sept 2024, 2:24 mins). In Moving Drawing 7, I took the black and white video recordings from Moving Drawing 1, which were originally created for a Bach's Chaconne virtual performance for the CreArt Box Web Music Festival, and reedited them. This new video is glitchy, chaotic, and features gliding sounds of minimalist-looking pencil lines. I created this piece for Roulette's Phill (Niblock) Forever Marathon Memorial on 10/5/24.

Moving Drawing 6, 2024

Click the image below to view the Moving Drawing 6 video (June 2024, 2:17 mins). On the right,

the 22"x30" MD6 drawing from Feb 2024 is the completed drawing on which the video is based.

Moving Drawing 5, 2023

Click the image below to view the Moving Drawing 5 video (Aug 2023, 2:17 mins). On the right,

the 22"x30" MD5 drawing from May 2023 is the completed drawing on which the video is based.

Moving Drawing 4, 2023

Click the image below to view the Moving Drawing 4 video (Jan 2023, 2:06 mins). On the right,

the 22"x30" MD4 drawing from Jan 2023 is the completed drawing on which the video is based.

Moving Drawing 3, 2022

Click the image below to view the Moving Drawing 3 video (Aug 2022, 1:25 mins). On the right,

the 22"x30" MD3 drawing from Aug 2022 is the completed drawing on which the video is based.

Moving Drawing 2, 2022

Click the image below to view the Moving Drawing 2 video (July 2022, 1:24 mins). On the right,
the 22"x30" MD2 drawing from July 2022 is the completed drawing on which the video is based.

Moving Drawing 1, 2021

NC8x8 drawings #5, #6, and #7, along with the Moving Drawing 1 video, are one intermedia project. The project consists of two stages. The 2021 CreArt Web Music Festival was the first stage of my intermedia collaboration. The drawings in the video were footage from handheld cellphone recordings while listening to Hilary Hahn's performance of 1997 J.S. Bach's Chaconne for solo violin. The 2nd part of my project was to divide that large original drawing into three 8"x 8" pieces and finish all three drawings #5, #6, and #7 in April 2021 separately. Marks of improvisation heighten the forms of each drawing, as in music. The creative process mirrors the unpredictable nature of life, which relies on perception, feelings and trust to arrive at a work's completion. Click the b/w image to view the Moving Drawing 1 video (March 2021, 1:39 mins).

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