A feeling of being connected to and inseparable from everything while at the same time everything appears more distinctive than ever: ‘You stand here, and the world stands there, overly subjective and overly objective, but both almost painfully clear, and what separates and unites these normally fused elements is a blazing darkness, an overflowing and extinction, a swinging in and out. You swim like a fish in water or a bird in air, but there’s no riverbank and no branch, only this floating!’’
‘One sometimes forgets to see and to hear, and is struck completely dumb. And yet it’s precisely in minutes like these that one feels one has come to oneself for a moment.’
- observing Robert Musil - Man without Qualities from Mette Leonard Høeg articl in Aeon.co
Each piece begins with an image: a fragment from my watercolours made during the Covid years (2020–2022).
From there, I use Adobe Firefly as a kind of hallucinatory collaborator, generating short video sequences from the painted source. The prompts are intentionally poetic, suggestive, and slightly surreal.
I want to be like air, everyone needing me but nobody seeing me... referencing a passage from the book -
Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Musings in and around my apartment in Saint Nazaire this month, with the added addition of a séjour en Italie... Piedmont
Réflexions autour de mon appartement à Saint-Nazaire — ce mois-ci
Watercolours out and about - Italy
Aquarelles en plein air