Still Life (Vanitas)  2009
Custom software and industrial LCD panel.
12” x 22” x 3”. 4hr 10min continuous loop. Ed. 5 + 2 APs.  

A dynamic painting (or a motionless animation), this work is a photo-realistic, yet completely synthetic, presentation of a mammal skull and candlestick.  Over the course of four-plus hours, these objects, rendered in a (mostly)17th century Dutch tradition, are constantly, but imperceptibly, changing in form, position, and material.  As the skull evolves though animal-types including bear, human, baboon, and boar, intermediate forms generate a diversity of fictional hybrids (38%_boar/45%_bear/17%_human for example).   

An unexpected use of production-level 3D animation, the infra-perception pacing aims to explore evolutionary phenomena through a lens of historical painting.

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