Trailer: Hush the Sky

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

A hand-drawn chalkboard animation by Alette Simmons-Jimenez using line to record bitstream type memories of a recent road trip in search of early childhood roots. This work was conceived for The Drawing Project, curated by Emmy Mathis in 2013 and sponsored by Frost Art Museum at Florida International University.

Monologue/Drawing

From the very beginning drawing was a tool that allowed us to record a memory, an image, a sensation, or an experience… something we didn’t want to forget. I lived in Northern Italy as a baby during the time they call “your most formative years”. The first words I learned to speak were in Italian. Only recently I have been able to travel back and I have been startled by the immediate visceral connection. I drove from Milan to the lakes of Northern Italy, on to a tiny town in Switzerland, and back through mountain peaks, marble quarries, ragged ocean cliffs, through Florence into vineyards in the heart of Tuscany.

“Hush The Sky“ is a video art work running 1:59min. using hand-drawn animation employing the drawn line to record random memories of the journey.

The stream of images comes together on a chalkboard, in real time, with markings and erasures. The designs and patterns, culled from my personal experiences and snap shots, link back and forth, from nature to the built environment – from Medieval to Modern. Beginning with a wish I made, blowing the delicate seeds of a dandelion into the wind, the animation follows memories as they jump into consciousness.

The audio portion is the actual sound recorded while drawing/erasing, with the distortions that occurred during editing.

Alette Simmons-Jimenez
2013