Picture Scroll
Picture Scroll, excerpts, work in progress, 2023
Picture Scroll, detail, pencil drawing on tracing paper
Picture Scroll, detail, pencil drawing on tracing paper
Picture Scroll, pencil drawing on tracing paper, 300x30 cm, in progress 2023 -
The work approaches the language of narrative medieval manuscripts and Japanese picture scrolls through film. Tracking shots of a panoramic drawing, form a visual journey where time, space and characters intertwine.
The magnification of the macro lens used for the shoot, brings us deep into the world of the drawing. The illusion is broken when the camera rolls off the edge of the paper. A piece of tape appears, a ruler that holds the paper in place, implying that the drawing has a given size, that it exists as an object in a real place.
To be completed as a multi-channel film installation.
Picture Scroll, production stills, 2023