Life
(2010)
makers: Cade Wilson-Saul, Laura Gibby, Kapila Selvadurai.
This is intricate in a way that I'd describe as small, but not small as in insignificant but in the way that a miniature is small, and so intricate, and that one of the ways in which it becomes valued. It consists of lots of aphoristic fragments that wanders between a paean and eulogy for life, though with a capital "L". I'm now officially old, so from my distance it is a work with the passion, enthusiasm and bitterness of the young.
This is also a work that doesn't use frame grabs for the thumbnails but has a very small set of images that are repeated. These reflect the values of the work - an angel's wings, sprockets, a woman's silhouette and a sun. This work also seems to be more willing than most to let the video break up, to be pixellated, abstracted. This seems deliberate and even at times joyful, unlike many where the artefacts are the response of either technical lack, accident or just not bothering to do it well enough in the first place. A sketch can be messy, if that is part of the plan. If the plan is photo realism, then you need to draw that way. In either case you should now why you want to draw that way in the first place, and this one seems to know this.