SATURDAYS

Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

Feb 2024 - May 2024

Saturdays is a animation on how to cook pancakes. If you follow closely, this video includes a recipe. That’s 1.5 cups flour, 1 tbsp baking soda, 2 tbsp sugar, 1/2 stick butter, 1 egg, 1.75 cups milk. The video is about the act of prepping, cooking, and serving food to the people that I love.

I made this animation by hand painting each component in acrylic on hot press watercolor paper. Then, I photographed each part and digitally deleted the negative space. In Adobe Premiere I used key frames to set video parameters and rates of change. For example, the image could be at ninety degrees at 4:00, then at one hundred and eighty degrees at 4:10. That would indicate that the picture would rotate ninety degrees over ten seconds. If that makes sense, then start to imagine the same process repeated for position, scale, perspective, color, value, opacity, etc…It’s a lot, I know.

The sounds in this video are all recorded noises from my kitchen. Drawers thud. Forks clank. Plates clink. If I was a better musician, I would have set up my kitchen like a drum set and hammered out the rhythm. But, I can’t really keep time like that. So I cut sound chunks with standardized lengths. I used these building blocks to construct visual patters to match audible beats. I wish I were a better drummer.