Making sense of the world

I am typing this on my phone from thousands upon thousands of feet in the air. My thumbs struggle to tap the correct letters as we are experiencing a bit of turbulence. The girl beside me clutches the ends of the arm rest. I am going over fatal flight statistics in my head-- I don't know any, I am currently just makin up random numbers to calm my own nerves. Is that an indication of multiple personality disorder?

The red light of the wing flashes, briefly exposing enough light to render us all seated upright in a dark void. Only a handful of seconds pass between each flash, a long shutter speed allowing just enough light to pass through the lens to capture the wing, the fog, the wing, more fog. Then lightning in the distance. How far in the distance, I can not tell. I can not grasp any concept of space or time at this altitude, on this magnificent piece of aircraft.

Animation on Glass is yet another entirely tactile approach to filmmaking. It is intimate, driven by passion, forging a deep connection with the image as its conception, birth, life, and death is guided by the artist's own hands. Both the physical proximity of the artist to the medium and the extensive amount of time and effort spent in order to achieve the smooth motion of each individual image into the next-- How deeply personal these images must be to the artist, how deeply personal they must continue to become. As the animation filmmaker illustrates the minute detail of fragmented motion, they grow to understand the intricacies of life, of the kinetic relationship each living and nonliving subject has with one another, the potential of motion and the suspension of time within every crystallization of a muscle contraction-- we begin to understand and appreciate underlying, ongoing processes, perceiving them to be much more important than before.

I am excited, yet completely intimidated by the immediacy of this filmmaking technique. Working with sand, paint, and charcoal on Glass will be challenging, but I am excited to see the images created from the gradual chipping-away of the original.