
Unearthing (2018)
Single-channel video animation, 2 minutes
Unearthing refers to literal excavation, to metaphorical discovery, and to the uncovering of imagery through painterly experimentation,
unfolding a process that is at once archaeological and improvisational. A dancing figure moves between stillness and motion, blurred by long exposure, present
and absent simultaneously.
Unearthing is a video animation constructed from a series of long-exposure photographs, morphed into a continuous sequence. A dancing figure dissolves and re-forms against a large-scale mixed media wall drawing while himalayan salt blocks, a raw stone, bamboo stems, a red garment, and a wooden platform are staged
as a field of material witnesses. In inverting the traditional logic of painting as enduring object, the work asks what it means to make something permanent out of disappearance.

