Moving Drawing AV Project

I started the “Moving Drawing” project in 2021 to explore the integration of drawing, moving images (or the absence of images), and sound (or silence). Drawing is an intimate and heartfelt experience of body and mind that embodies tactility, time, place, movement, and sound. 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 ambience, 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 focuses on transforming tangible material 2D drawings into time-based digital video, sound and images, highlighting process, change, and interconnection. These works also reflect on and contemplate our shared human experiences and challenges. Video art merges technology and creativity, helping me explore thoughts, evoke emotions, and spark conversations about contemporary issues. How do I respond to everyday ambiguities and the impact of conflict and violence near and far through drawing, video, and sound? What are my views on the advancement of AI technology, now 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 choices strongly affect image (mis)representations, content, and media filtering. How do these editing strategies shape our visuality and perception of reality? What constitutes the "truth" or "truths", especially in this time of division and chaos?

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). For Moving Drawing 7, I reedited Moving Drawing 1, originally created for Bach's Chaconne virtual performance at the CreArt Box Web Music Festival. This new video is glitchy and chaotic, featuring 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 drawing in the video was captured from handheld cellphone footage while listening to Hilary Hahn's 1997 performance of J.S. Bach's Chaconne for Solo Violin. The 2nd stage was to cut up the original drawing into three 8"x 8" pieces and finish all three drawings #5, #6, and #7 separately. They were all done in April 2021. Improvising plays a role in 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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