Here are some videos from other iterations of my “Removial Studies” series. These are the versions that I don’t view as entirely successful, but there are some nice parts to each of them. I wanted to include them because they are an important part of the process; in a way, they document my progress while learning to live with this machine. In this sense, the project fleshes out more as a true domestic intervention.

Here’s an initial sketch and an installation detail.

Removal Studies are a series of videos made using time-lapse photography. These videos are sleep studies that observe the reaction of the unconscious body to the negative stimulus of removing the covers.
The covers are removed by a machine that attaches to the bed and tugs a slight amount off in increments throughout the night. By studying the sleeping body, my aim was to capture something very honest and very animal about human beings. I was interested in this gesture of removal — and subsequently, exposure — and how it could function as a larger metaphor.

The imagery is generated by a DSLR camera taking 30 second exposures every two minutes. This video is what I view to be the most successful iteration from a series of studies. It was shot during a full moon.

Other studies and process work: Link

Video coming soon.

An expermental animation. A game of Go is played; each move on a new sheet of tracing paper. As the game goes forward, older moves fade out from the layering of the paper, eventually disappearing. New moves replace old moves and the game becomes a confusing, infinite progression.