Moving Drawing Project

Drawing is a breathing, tactile, and sensory experience. "Moving Drawing" is an interdisciplinary project that integrates the timely experience of drawing with digital video and sound editing to create meaningful expressions. In my room, 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 unpredictable camera movements against the incidental sounds outdoors. I transformed these recordings of the drawing experiences in progress into movements of multi-layered auditory and visual constructs comprising, i.e., movement of the lines, the sound of pencils, erasing, the outdoor noises, ambient sounds like room noises and music, little bugs crawling on the drawing paper, birds flying, sunlights and shadow, and ink flowing. I explore new meanings across temporal, spatial, sonic, psychological, cultural, and social dimensions while translating from one medium to another. The videos in the Moving Drawing Project cross-media as separate digital entities coexist and interrelate with their organic sources in new contexts. These deliberate pairings invite viewers to contemplate the meanings of interconnectedness, our discernments of authenticity and originality, and the complexity of "truth" in a divisive, violent, and tumultuous world. How do digital technologies and media platforms alter our perceptions, reflect and influence our interpretations of information and shape our understanding of what is 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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