Moving Drawing Project

"Moving Drawing" is a cross-media project comprising drawing, video, and sound. I expanded the genre of drawing to include its timely essence and external aspects digitally and contextually, especially the sounds of pencils and erasings, movements of the drawing, sunlight and shadows, room ambiance, street sirens beyond the self and 2D objecthood. I used my left hand to record imperfect camera movements and sounds of my right hand mark-making or erasing. While at it, I also captured unpredictable occurrences, such as a bug crawling on paper. I used video to edit these recordings, recontextualizing them to deeper human concerns. My work contemplates the complexity of human connections, the violence and brutality near and far, and advancing AI technology on humanity and societies. In this project, I often used zoom-in on edits to magnify and transform the details and to bring parallel attention to the power of image framing, sizing and manipulations, especially applicable to today's news filtering and misinformation. How do these editing strategies shape our visual representations, content, and perception of reality? What constitutes "truth" or truths in this divisive and chaotic time?

Moving Drawing #7, 2024

Click the image of the Moving Drawing #7 video (Sept 2024, 2:24 mins). I recycled the video-recorded drawing footage of Moving Drawing Project #1 from 2021 in this piece. I edited this video of the b/w drawing, bringing out its pencil gliding sounds to a disordered, glitchy, minimalist-looking new moving image. I made this piece for Phill for Roulette's Phill (Niblock) Forever Marathon Memorial on 10/5/24.

Moving Drawing #6, 2024

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

See next the 22"x30" MD6 drawing from Feb 2024, the completed drawing in the video.

Moving Drawing #5, 2023

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

See next the 22"x30" MD5 drawing from May 2023, the completed drawing in the video.

Moving Drawing #4, 2023

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

See next the 22"x30" MD4 drawing from Jan 2023, the completed drawing in the video.

Moving Drawing #3, 2022

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

See next the 22"x30" MD3 drawing from Aug 2022, the completed drawing in the video.

Moving Drawing #2, 2022

Click the image for the Moving Drawing #2 video (July 2022, 1:24 mins).
See next the 22"x30" MD2 drawing from July 2022, the completed drawing in the video.

Moving Drawing #1, 2021

NC8x8 drawings #5, #6, and #7, plus the Moving Drawing #1 video, are one multimedia project. The project consists of two stages. The 2021 CreArt Web Music Festival was the first stage of intermedia collaboration. The drawings in the video were handheld cellphone recordings while listening to Hilary Hahn's 1997 J.S. Bach's Chaconne for solo violin performance. The 2nd part of my project was to divide that large drawing into three 8"x 8" pieces and finish all of the drawings #5, #6, and #7 in April 2021. 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 for the Moving Drawing #1 video (March 2021, 1:39 mins).

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