ARTIST STATEMENT
‘Re-Enter’ explores “How does loss of object and place affect one’s presence/experience?” through contemporary personal, societal and cultural contexts. Created with pen, paint and paper, my resolved work animates circumstance around loss and trauma.
Recent grief my aunt experienced surrounding the burning down of her house and the resulting loss of her two dogs informed ‘Re-Enter’. Based on her healing process, the animatic cycles through two sequences- introduction leading to silhouettes of dogs, their loss of presence, and their reformation, the camera exiting the house. ‘Re-Enter’ represents the rebuilding of a life and family, to help heal and begin anew.
ARTWORK PROCESS
Drawn from recent traumatic loss my aunt experienced through a housefire, I decided to document the process of grief and healing that was visible. With included consideration of others’ grieving processes, I set out to create a stop motion paper animatic of sequences within emotions of grief and healing. Using freestyle technique with paint and ink, I drew the first sequence of the animation frame by frame, reversing the second sequence via digital artwork program. Stylised linework was chosen to emphasise present emotion, requiring limited removal of the pen from paper in attempt to form image from an unbroken line.
