ABOUT

Beaded Waves is a series of short mixed-media animations built around a monochrome self-portrait.Turquoise beads move across the collarbones like a small tide. Their shifting lines follow the shape of the body, turning an ornament into something felt: a touch, a pulse, a moment of tension.
I wanted the portrait to hold more than a likeness. The grain of the image, the physical beads and the irregular rhythm of handmade animation bring it closer to the way it feels to inhabit a body.Materials & process: Monochrome self-portrait imagery, beads, physical compositions, frame-by-frame animation.