Survival Movements is a creative project
addressing trauma through open dialogue
and stop-motion animation, creating conversation and space in a way that explores experiences through art making.

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Gatherings

Gatherings will invite discussion on the various ways trauma happens, manifests, and heals while creating an animation through the process of drawing, cutting paper, and other various art making activities with the result being a stop-motion animation to be shown at a screening with a discussion related to the films.

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Survival Movements helps create conversation and space around trauma in a way that explores the relationship between experience through animation making.

Fabric
Fabric

We come into the world, and are wrapped in fabric. We wear it most of our lives. We are defined by it, and judged by it. Then we leave, hopefully wearing our best---with clean underwear.

This video compiles fabrics I interacted with over the course of a day, as well as ones I've had for years. It's a meditation in texture, touch, and the ways we interact with fabric and as humans.

The music is from Ryuichi Sakamoto:

http://www.sitesakamoto.com

With a bang…
With a bang…

Animation made in 2008, reflecting on my grandma’s death in 2007.