An art and music performance with video, artwork and live music.

This animation was intended to be a similar experience to that of watching a campfire or a fire in a fireplace. Like a fire, it has no narrative content. And like a fire it has no cuts or transitions. It is a seamless flow of changing images. Watch it the way you would watch a campfire. This promotes a specific kind of experience—like a trance but not exactly a trance. The thinking mind tries to engage and “make sense” of the visuals but can’t and has to surrender. You end up in a pleasantly focused state, which may include a sense of anticipation and discovery as your creative mind takes in the flowing visuals and finds familiar or fantastic forms passing through. There is a sense of well-being and clarity. Creativity and inspired problem-solving always occur in some version of this state. For example many people have reported getting their breakthrough ideas while in the shower. We are attracted to trance states. We enjoy many activities that can induce one: dancing, music, exercise, even hobbies and hand-crafts like knitting or model building, or simply watching a spider spinning a web. The surrealists of the last century said that all art functions on a surreal level, but it tends to have layers of “meaning” on top that complicate the issue. One of their goals was to eliminate those extra layers so that the art could function directly. With these videos I am similarly exploring how to work with the viewer’s focus and experience.

The art and animation can be seen here: https://eyetripimages.com/worlds.html