Fragments and Forms

A series of short videos about the history of western art. These short, gif-like films are a critical, and at times comical exploration of paintings, sculptures, and curatorial decisions.

Swipe Left | Swipe Right

2022.

Single channel video, 4min 44sec.

The Fluidity of the Female Form

Titan - Venus of Urbino, 1538

Manet - The Luncheon on the Grass, 1863

Botticelli - The Birth of Venus, 1484 - 1486

Rembrandt - Danae, 1636

Marc - Nudes in Open Air, 1911

2022.

Single channel video, 22sec.

Auguste, Charles and Frédéric

Youth Triumphant (La Jeunesse triomphante) Auguste Rodin

oh, yes by Charles Bukowski

Étude Op. 25, No. 12 in C minor by Chopin (reworked)

2022.

Single channel video, 33sec.

The Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth Sings

Sculpture; 2nd century BC, Greek, Hellenistic period, marble

Music; A gentle reshape of Kenny G's Songbird

2022.

Single channel video, 42sec.

Disrupt and Disturb

If Marcel Duchamp met François Joseph Heim

2022.

Single channel video, 9sec.

Lictor Holding the Fasces

Figure; bronze, 20BC, Roman

2022.

Single channel video, 1min.

The Three Trees

Rembrand, 1643,

with birds

2022.

Single channel video, 8sec loop.

Peter and Paul, Embracing as They Fall

Music; Chopin's Nocturne op 9 No. 1 (with synths and claps)

Painting; The Embracing of Peter and Paul, likely painted by Angelos Akotantos in the last decades of the 15th century.

2022.

Single channel video, 1min.

What Have You Been Thinking About?

Sculpture; The Thinker (Le Penseur), Auguste Rodin, 1904.

2022.

Single channel video, 43sec.

Tourists Exploring Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

Painter; John Constable, 1825

2022.

Single channel video, 32sec.

Naissance de Venus [vivante]

Painting; The Birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanel

2021.

Single channel video, 41sec.