Installing Proximity

As a senior at Montserrat I get to share a gallery with 5 other people in Senior Design Seminar for a week. Our exhibition, called Proximity, will be open this week, April 9th - 13th. You can see my completed senior film above. "The Tortoise, Hare, Dog and Sheep" It will be on display at Proximity along with my previous animations "Dance Of The Cloud People", "Super Montserrat Fighter, and "The More You Don't Know" parodies, and it will also be accompanied by giant printed characters from my animation.

Installing an exhibition is not fun when you have no experience doing artwork that doesn't involve a computer. I felt like I wasn't on the same level as the graphic designers that actually knew what they were doing. So that was weird. In the near future, I'll have to make myself focus more on physical artwork. I have a few ideas about that, but I'll discuss them at another time.

The opening for my show is Wednesday the 11th from 5 - 8. Oddly enough, I'm not really nervous about it. Installing was the hardest part. Now I just have to stand in that room for 3 hours on Wednesday and then take everything down on Friday.

As you can see, the animation was rushed in time for the show, so there will be edits somewhere down the road, but right now I know I'm taking a long break from this project after Friday.

These characters were not meant to be blown up on a wall.

It took a while to get a few resources working, such as having access to a second screen for displaying my animations. After that, I found out I needed to go back and burn more DVDs that were standard definition compatible. I almost seem like I know what I'm talking about here. And to think a few days ago I didn't know spray mount adhesive existed.

I'm the third student in Montserrat to have animation in a senior show. I can't wait to see future shows that are all animation students!