Moving Drawing Project

I started the “Moving Drawing” project in 2021 to explore drawing’s relationship to sound (or silence), time and movement. Drawing is an intimate experience of body, mind and spirit. In my creative process, I use my left hand to capture uncontrollable cellphone recordings of movements and sound, while my right hand draws or erases. While doing so, I record the physical touch and various markings of my right hand on a paper surface, the tactile sounds of pencil friction and resistance and movements on paper, the sounds of erasing, the room's ambiance, sounds from the streets, sunlight and shadows, and all the unpredictable occurrences, ie, a bug crawling on paper. I then edited these video and audio recordings together to allow new contexts and insights to merge. The Moving Drawing Project transforms a physical, tangible drawing into a digital time-based video, sound, and images through the interface of human hands, highlighting process, change, and interconnections. The inspirations for these works are rooted in daily urban life and in mediated experiences of the world's conflicts and complexities. Video art merges technology and creativity, helping us explore thoughts, evoke emotions, and spark conversations about contemporary issues. How do I respond to everyday ambiguities and to the impact of conflict and violence, near and far, through drawing, video, and sound? How does the advancement of AI technology, now an integral part of our lives, affect our tactility, sight and auditory experiences? I often zoom in on edits to magnify and transform details, highlighting the power of resizing, cropping, and selection, and how these editing choices can strongly affect image (mis)representations and media content. How do these editing strategies shape our visuality and perception of reality? What constitutes the "truth" or "truths" in reality, 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 finished drawing the video is based on.

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 finished drawing the video is based on.

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 finished drawing the video is based on.

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 finished drawing the video is based on.

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 finished drawing the video is based on.

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 finished drawing the video is based on.

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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