Celebrate Life - The San Bushmen of the Kalahari - Visualmyth
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Re "Celebrate Life" "@amberf... I understand that you might prefer to see the original movie of the San; however, I was commissioned by the Tribal Trust Foundation to create a video using computer graphics as a way to show how the culture resonates in the digital age. I was walking a fine line, my goal was to explore the culture from a different perspective. Using realtime response to sound (ONADIME software). As well as rotoscoping the frames from the original movie, using Photoshop."
San culture.
I became an artist in 1979 after spending three years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska where I fished for King Crab, shrimp, halibut and salmon on the North Pacific and on the Bering Sea. It was an amazing experience; inspired by sleep deprivation and the urge to survive I began to draw and paint. Prior to fishing I considered myself a writer, soaking up experiences, writing prose, poetry and short stories. I also spent 3 years as a herdsman on dairy farms in Vermont and in Washington state, my thinking at the time was that if I learned to fish and farm I would be a true Irishman, and I would always be able to get a job.
So I experienced the "ancient/primal" occupations. I have exhibited my work in galleries in the US and Europe. In 1991 I had the good fortune of being the first American artist to have an exhibit in East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Kulturhaus Treptow. My current goal is to write as much as I paint, combine unseen elements - create a big circle for the wind to blow through, causing sound. "There's plenty where plenty comes from."
email:visualmyth@gmail.com
