Friday, July 17, 2020

A River's Tale - A Short Documentary


This short film is dedicated to the resilient spirit of Basotho, which often is evident throughout their trying situations and environments of the mountain kingdom. Accompanied by the sonorous music of Mpho Molikeng andJonathan Grossley, the film is a musical tribute as well as homage to a life that many never witness throughout their lives.

Friday, July 10, 2020

Untitled - A Video Poem


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Also dubbed: A Series Of Storms In A Coffee Mug, these video poems are an exploration of the plasticity of perception in relation to that which is perceived. Though substantially reliant on the perceiver's imagineering, these images are morphing replications that seem trans-mutant in non-deterministic patterns. Furthermore, the use of a smartphone camera weaves yet another web of suspension upon which our image-forming faculties are challenged by a framed perceptual space, though presented in a cluster of multiplicities. This becomes a metaphor for an uncanny disregard of similitude that bids the images to their original copy, while allowing for a divergence of vantage points from which a viewer can interpret these moving artworks.

Not to say these artworks alter the human perceptual apparatus in that they change vision of each viewer, but they merely bring to question whether art is capable of restructuring human capacity of recognizing objects in their fundamental state. And considering our basic and literal perception of objects as they fundamentally are - can art be capable of remodeling our perception towards perceptual fields for which we possess no point of reference?