Animations
Harmless Guests
I’ve always been drawn to artworks that externalize the psychological state and trespass from what can be rationally observed into spiritual territory. If you’ve been following my Substack, you can find that I love blending random disciplines for inspiration, as well as materials, and I hope this comes off more as multidisciplinary than restless, lol.
The video you’re looking at feels like you’re the observer, except the curtains open without your voluntary movement, and you’re exposed to these nearly identical looking ghosts outside. I, too, found myself wondering if these were iterations of the same spirit, culminating in this anguish towards the end of the video. Additionally, this looks like some rustic home in the country with a really bold interior, but it can also be those archaic peep show machines, in which you pop in a quarter or something and you get this fleeting entertainment. Except it’s less salacious and more horrifying.
In creating this animation, I drew from multiple sources that resonated with me: Grete Stern, Alex Katz, and the Andes Hotel.