Video created with Adobe After Effects

"Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past." - Lutz Koepnick, On Slowness: Toward the Aesthetic of the Contemporary

This video is thought of as a digital painting created by a human figure. It was created during the early stages of my thesis, Increments of Translation completed in May 2016.

This digital, durational painting was made in an effort to understand the spatial implications of slowness, but more than this, to understand how to translate and represent a durational experience. The video documents a figure occupying a large print of Giacomo Balla's painting, The Speed of a Motorcycle, a painting all about speed. The contours of the painting guided the figure's footsteps with a forced slow pace. Through the recording of this interaction between figure and painting, and a simple play of frame rate and opacity, a new version of the painting emerges; a digital painting created by a figure rather than an oil painting created by a brush.

For more information about this video and the thesis it was a part of, please see Increments of Translation.