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deluge 2017-2018

Stopmotion animation

My video animation deluge is a simple tale of a natural or manmade disaster, and survival. It suggests art – in this case in a form of music - as a vehicle for redemption, offering a way out when an impasse seems inevitable. Resilience encompasses an ability to see an opening within an obstacle; in my work the obstacle becomes a part of new solution. A creative act launches the transformation of misfortune into possibility.
In this piece I use child-like imagery, storytelling and basic technique to convey a bigger issue. Fairy tales or mythological narratives are an ancient medium. Stories are vehicles for transporting the mind and imagination to difficult and hidden matters of importance. While uncovering an inconvenient truth, they propose an unconventional and alternative way of seeing.

A tall Liquidambar styraciflua -tree towers in our urban backyard.

She is over 100 years old and has witnessed lives of other families before us; she observes humans’ restlessness.

Liquidambar is not an Australian native tree. I am not native either. We are immigrants from faraway lands. We have become friends – she is the older and wiser of us, and my confidant. She listens, and sometimes responds with a hum. She sees far, over the entire neighbourhood.

My friend Liquidambar will still be standing, pushing against the foundations of our house, long after I am gone.