Culled from instructional publications like "101 Fabulous Rotary Cut Quilts" and "The Joy of Quilting," these cel-based animations - filmed "front and back" - take inspiration from mesmerizing computer graphics. Swelling and contracting in complexity, the loops linger and labor over product and means.

Quilting Instructions 1-14

Colors and bubbles bustle energetically via oil, ink and clear acetate.

Ebullition

Direct animation with stained-glass contact paper, ink, and acetate.

A Joy

A collaboration with Chicago’s Judson Claiborne that captures the desert hallucinations of David Morehouse, former CIA spy and author of Psychic Warriors.

Twilight Spirit

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Rapid-fire florals and morning bird songs bridge interior and exterior, design and nature.

Posthaste Perennial Pattern

'Tie-dye' film study. Psychedelic patterns and colours mix on the various materials then explode onto the retina. The 16mm material perfectly captures the details of the materials.

Undertone Overture

A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts. Mesmerising RGB bling-bling for the cinema, featuring compositions for bowed vibraphone by Elliot Cole.

Glistening Thrills

A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes.

Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing

Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and text(ure). A call and response of flickering and lingering, this catalogue of catalogues remembers a tactile economy.

New Fancy Foils

Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division (or lack of) between abstraction in fine art and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as voice over narration, the piece adopts the form of a popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine-performance.