The Unfolding – Filmic Superimpositions
A series of art prints produced from selected frames of The Unfolding footage.
What Things May Emerge
The installation’s duration and contents vary depending on the settings of each instance of presentation. On average, there are about 30 000 still images (individual frames). While it goes beside the point of the installation to isolate and inspect individual frames, I nevertheless choose to take this route here, as it may potentially lead to new works yet unexplored. (Editor’s note: see The Unfolding – Filmic Superimpositions for a selection of print works that emerged from here…)
Browsing through the thread of individual frames of the film I often stop to look deeper into a particular frame whenever something grabs my attention. Pareidolia put to good use. Sometimes, interesting figures emerge, half-formed entities or facial characteristics; apparitions of some kind. I’ve isolated individual frames from the footage and printed some of them out to for further use as lithographic plates. In the process the emerging figures may develop further to gain more refined characteristics, although sometimes what was initially there evaporates – signal descends back into the noise it seemed to emerge from…
(an excerpt from “Reflections on Bilateral Symmetry and Some Other Things” post on Paraferal Research.)