The video “Ghosts and Guardians” is a single channel, 3-d digital animation.
Depicted is a looping pantheon of characters that celebrate a flow of absurdity and grotesquery, shape-shifting and metamorphosis.
The parade accommodates and embraces contradictions both menacing and comforting, strange and familiar.
The sampling of references includes diverse sources such as toys, dolls, knits and clothing, Japanese “yokai” ( ‘a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore’), and early cartoons.
The sound is sampled from Olivier Messiaen “Oiseaux Exotiques” and Raymond Scott “Domino”.