Everted Sanctuaries is a series of stop-motion animated video works exploring the topic of introversion. I have selected two works that combine processes and inspiration from both new and old media.
Everted Sanctuaries VI (watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/303147146 ) explores the boundaries between speaking out and blending in using hybrid animation methods. First, it contains manual stop-motion animations of a physical book and its pages. Second, it contains frame-by-frame digital animations created with the traditionally print-oriented typesetting systems of Adobe InDesign. These two methods are combined to create a seamless illusion of movement between interior and exterior. Words are methodically processed, slowly contemplated, carefully considered, and even explosively released. Self-expression can be exhilarating, empowering and freeing but also isolating, frightening, exhausting, and damaging.
Everted Sanctuaries VII (watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/380537669 ) uses manual stop-motion animation to manipulate found physical objects but references the gridded structures of digital media. Familiar modular and pixel-based structures challenge perceptions as they transform and distort in 2-D and 3-D physical space.
Eversion refers to an organism’s ability to turn itself inside out. For example, a sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to distract predators, sacrificing vital functions for ultimate survival. Similarly, introverts temporarily evert their personalities to function in extroverted contexts. This performance is simultaneously action and reaction, assertion and retreat. Cultural, educational, and professional environments do not often provide introverts the sanctuary necessary to revitalize themselves.
Everted Sanctuaries communicate about the complex needs of introverts. Transformed objects become metaphors for the often uncomfortable process of becoming temporarily extroverted. Ubiquitous exteriors part to reveal internal intricacies—beautiful, but unintended consequences of the contortions necessary to fit in. Everted Sanctuaries establish the importance of sanctuary for introverts and ask viewers to consider the depth and vulnerability concealed beneath silent surfaces.
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