3 minutes
Direct animation and digital video with sound
2025
Image of a Flame examines the unstable distance between an object and its representation. Through digital distortion and direct animation applied onto 16mm film, the flame is repeatedly transformed, obscured, and reconstituted as image. What appears immediate becomes mediated, filtered through layers of texture, interference, and material translation. The work approaches the flame less as subject than as a limit point for representation itself: an image that resists fixation even as the apparatus attempts to capture it. Between analogue mark-making and digital manipulation, the flame flickers between presence and abstraction.