Humanity and our ‘Worldly’ Experience (2011) 2:10 min animation from drawings
Humanity and Our Worldly Experience (2011)
Lauren Edmonds
2:10 min animation from charcoal drawings
This animation created using a number of individual drawings, explores how every individual has their own perspective on the world which together form a whole world perspective. It also explores how our limited views of the world could end up being the cause of our ultimate destruction.
Ignorance leads to lack of understanding, which leads to misunderstanding, which leads to conflict. The cones are used as they are virtually the same shapes as spyglasses which I relate back to the ideas of individual outlooks and views on the world. I decided to use the cones in my final animation piece as structures that encase living humans. This is to represent the limitations of our individual perspectives and that we can only see as far as we really want to see or as far as our daily routines and lifestyles ‘allow’ us to.
With this animation work, I received an Excellence award for Visual Art and Design (2011) as part of Creative Generation Queensland. This means this work will tour around the state in 2012-13 with other works created by other Queensland students awarded the Excellence Award. These works will first be exhibited in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in 2012.
~ Lauren Edmonds (2011, 17 years old)
Exhibited at GoMa
Humanity and Our 'Worldly' Experience on show at GoMA in the Creative Generations Excellence in Visual Art and Design Award in 2011 Touring Exhibition, 2012
Humanity and our ‘Worldly’ Experience was selected for the inclusion in the Creative Generations Excellence in Visual Art and Design Award in 2011 Touring Exhibition which toured around the state of Queensland between 2012-13, starting at GoMA for 3 months.
The animation was created through charcoal drawings and frame by frame animation using Photoshop. The music/sound was created through recording sound and using GarageBand.