Moving Drawing Project

Video art merges technology with creativity, enabling me to explore thoughts, evoke emotions, and spark conversations about contemporary issues. "Moving Drawing" is a cross-media, interconnected project that comprises drawing, moving images, and sound. The activity of drawing is an experience that embodies time, movement, and sound that transcends beyond the creator and objecthood. In my creative process, I used my left hand to capture imperfect camera movements and sounds while my right hand made marks or erased. While at it, I recorded the sounds of pencil movements on paper, erasing, sunlight and shadows, room ambiance, street sirens, and unpredictable occurrences, such as a bug crawling on paper. These video fragments were edited to reflect our everyday reality in a contextual manner. The Moving Drawing Project connects Drawing with Moving Image (or the absence of images) and Sound. It explores the intersections between art forms. These works contemplate the beauty and challenges of our shared human experiences. How do I respond to the impact of conflicts and violence near and far in my creative process? Also, what are my thoughts on advancing AI technology in our everyday lives? I often zoom in on edits to magnify and transform details, drawing attention to the power of framing, sizing and cropping. These factors strongly affect image (mis)representations, content, and media filtering. How do these editing strategies influence our visuality and perception of reality? What constitutes the "truth" or "truths" in our divisive and chaotic world?

Moving Drawing #7, 2024

Click the image of the Moving Drawing #7 video (Sept 2024, 2:24 mins). I recycled the drawing footage from Moving Drawing Project #1 in 2021. I emphasized the sounds of gliding pencils on paper while editing the video. Eventually, it became glitchy, minimalist-looking and chaotic. 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).

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

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

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

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 for the Moving Drawing #2 video (July 2022, 1:24 mins).
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, plus 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 drawings in the video were footage from 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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