Self Portrait Statement

As much as I try to identity who I am, my always turn to art. It always help me something that I can’t describe in words. Recently I look into more ways of using media to make work and explore those endless possibilities. Last semester, I took a motion design class where I was able to more more programs that will allow me to do use more visuals can be seen by other people through motion. I thought a lot about my past and how I learn for my visuals rather than writing. Visuals help people learn area that would most people wouldn’t understand. It becomes a universal language. I was also very fascinated with watching television and movies, especially cartoons and how each frame would move so cleanly that I couldn’t even imagine how long it took animators to create and 30 minute or an hour and a half long video.

In my self portrait, I believed it was the matter for your work that reflects yourself. I decided to do an animation, hand drawn stills and having them animate. I wanted to create a narrative based on the ideas of youth but also taken in consideration about people’s future. Erickson’s ideas of youth do fit in the preliminary stages on how people live through life. Hilma af Klint also brought ideas about what the purpose of being in the universe and how ourselves play a big role. As well as Kambui Olujimi and how he wanted to tell his narrative in a different media.

The video starts of with a boy who is riding a bicycle to somewhere unknown. He is shown going somewhere while he is also is in a room doing nothing. I wanted to show a cause and effect situation, where you see the character is done and what he did to do it. Throughout the film, you see A sort part of papers falling, the writing are notes; reminders that he has to do many task and  overloaded with work. The narrative is to shows the boy who is has a lot of tasks and starts to imagine what if he were to stop doing it, questioning what is his purpose in life if he is not going to do all of the tasks that are demanded. He believes that he will just ride around his bike and just explore life. At the end of the video, the viewer doesn't see what happens, they only see the boy looking at the bike and nothing else. I wanted the end of the film to be open ended, letting the viewer decide what happens.

The way the video was implemented was hand drawing about 120 pieces of tracing paper, scanning it and placing all the images one after another. I wanted people to see the amount of work put into the images. There's so many three dimensional video and movies popularized, due to it being quick and easy that i wanted to stick with a traditional route, seeing all the images placed one another and seeing the ending result.


LINK: https://vimeo.com/334020453