Red Forest
Nascent and actively being developed, this work is formally comprised of six vertically mounted 55-60” flat screen LED monitors reminiscent of traditional Japanese ‘byoku’ screens from the Edo period. Employing formal and poetic elements of that tradition, the synchronized, digitally animated tableaux are read from right to left. The compositions are composed (with articulated visual information from work done in Python, Quartz Composer, and a digital Rutt-Etra Scanning Processor) in After Effects, a compositing software program. The viewer is invited into contemplation of evolving painterly landscapes and interior spaces- spaces both intimately familiar and strangely alien.