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MARLEIGH BELSLEY



like trying to hold liquid

10 min 
4 channel video - digital video and 16mm direct animation with ink and river water 
accompanying 8 channel video displayed on used i pod touch
2025

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Like Trying to Hold Liquid approaches liquidity as both material condition and metaphor for digital life. Video, like water, exists in constant flux, held only by its container. Images drift across reflective surfaces where visibility becomes unstable, slipping between depth and surface, abstraction and recognition. Beneath the image lie invisible layers that remain difficult to perceive yet continue to shape experience. Technology appears here not as separate from the real world, but as its reflection: immersive, pervasive, and impossible to fully grasp. The work proposes another mode of engaging the moving image, one that is slower, meditative, and resistant to seamless flow - like trying to hold liquid.






Marleigh Belsley

London, UK and New York NY
@Marleigh.Belsley 
mobelsley@gmail.com

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