Scratches is now available for purchase, with five editions available on NFT Show room. This was a piece of work that I created at University. The assignment was to take a bodily action, and turn that into a work of art, in any media.
I was studying digital media, but this was the sort of subject that required a physical manifestation to be created.
I took various pieces of perspex, transparency, and film stock, and took various items to them - craft knifes, blades, rocks, stones. I then washed ink through the scratched, transparent material, and created high resolution scans of the aftermath.
This was then layered, processed, analysed, and then animated in frame by frame sequence.
This piece is the first of many bits of video art that I will create tokens of that document my creative development as an art practitioner. It is a side of my life I've been detached from for quite some time (outside of my recent forays into photography) - and it is teaching me once again to focus on intent and what I want my actions, words, and output to say.
With this piece, I chose scratching as the source or verb as the basis for the work. This developed my affair towards attempting to document and communicate ephemeral acts and phenomena in art.
Of course, my definition of ephemeral tends to stem from that of the universal time scale, as opposed to the changing of a season or the evaporation of raindrops. I'm talking about the erosion of shore lines, and the sort of stuff that takes generations of fragile humans to observe.
I'm rambling a bit, so I'll just leave the preview gif here. Warning: this piece has some offensive soundtrack, meant to capture the sense of desperation and urgency that the act of itching. In-stills in a person.
Scratch that itch. Mixed media moving picture. Generated by scratching various substances, visual and auditory. Creative process: Knife into Perspex. Ink wash into Perspex. Dry. Scan in perspex. Analyse and Process scratches. Create Individual Frame Take Electric Guitar. Scratch Strings, Amplify distortion. Combine in sequence. An unsettling collection of frames that evoke the biological process of scratching and the eerie sounds that medical examinations such as ultrasounds give to patients.
If you wish to purchase a copy of this video art piece, it is available now on NFT Showroom. First edition is 50 SWAP.HIVE. There's only five editions!