Moving Drawing Project

Drawing is a breathing, tactile, and sensory experience. The "Moving Drawing" project explores integrating drawing experiences with digital video and sound editing to create meaningful cross-media expressions. I held my cell phone using my left hand to record the movements and sound of my mark-making on paper to capture less controlled and imperfect camera movements and outdoor noises. I transformed these recordings from my drawing experiences into edits of multi-layered auditory and visual constructs comprising, i.e., movements of lines, the sound of pencils, erasing, the outdoor noises, room ambiance and music, little bugs crawling on paper, birds flying, sunlights and shadow, and ink flowing. I explore relationships across temporal, spatial, sonic, psychological, cultural, and social dimensions while translating from one medium to another through video and sound editing. The videos in the Moving Drawing Project cross-media as separate digital entities coexist and interrelate with their organic sources, the drawing experience, in new contexts. In this intermedia project, I think about life's transition, connection, and co-existence in concurrence with our discernment of authenticity and originality in a rapidly advanced technological world. I use video editing as a means to magnify today's media impact on perceptual misunderstanding. My work questions the essence of "truth" and "real".

Moving Drawing #6 (video and drawing), 2024

Click the image directly below for the Moving Drawing #6 video (June 2024, 2:17 mins).

The video's drawings were based on fragments of the 22"x30" MD6 drawing from Feb 2024 below.

Moving Drawing #5 (video and drawing), 2023

Click the image directly below for the Moving Drawing #5 video (Aug 2023, 2:17 mins).

The video's drawings were based on fragments of the 22"x30" MD5 drawing from May 2023 below.

Moving Drawing #4 (video and drawing), 2023

Click the image directly below for the Moving Drawing #4 video (Jan 2023, 2:06 mins).

The video's drawings were based on fragments of the 22"x30" MD4 drawing from Jan 2023 below.

Moving Drawing #3 (video and drawing), 2022

Click the image directly below for the Moving Drawing #3 video (Aug 2022, 1:25 mins).

The video's drawings were based on fragments of the 22"x30" MD3 drawing from Aug 2022 below.

Moving Drawing #2 (video and drawing), 2022

Click the image directly below for the Moving Drawing #2 video (July 2022, 1:24 mins).
The video's drawings were based on fragments of the 22"x30" MD2 drawing from July 2022 below.

Moving Drawing #1 (video and drawing), 2021

Click the image directly below for the Moving Drawing #1 video (March 2021, 1:39 mins).
The three 8"x8" drawings completed in April 2021 below were based on the drawing shown in the video.

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