Phenakistoscope
This work allows continual exploration of my fascination with repetition as it relates to domesticity. It also affords me the opportunity to push visual communication that so perfectly elevates this focus in that the repetition and monotony can be experienced in real-time environment through animation.
One of the most exciting aspects of animation to me is the immediacy and totality of the fantasy. This has so much power in terms of how I can use animation and sound to explore/question perception, repetition, and perpetuation.
Project Type/Info:Experimental Animation—Phenakistoscope, Hand-painted animation disc. Acrylic paint and colored pencil.
Experimental Media Project, 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2019.
Phenakistoscope
57th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2019.
The phenakistoscope is an early form of animation invented by Joseph Plateau in 1841. At its essence is a series of drawings on a spinning disc, which create the illusion of motion using the persistence of vision principle.
The persistence of vision principle states that the viewer will interpret a sequence of still images as one moving image if those images are presented in a rate of succession that allows the eye to be fooled into seeing a continuous image.
