So.. "me he puesto al día" - I've finally got around to working on the edit of la Medusa Fogata... for a reminder of the background at Playa Docas take a look back a good few posts: here.
For the music I took a snippet from this song, "No hay Nadie como tú" by Calle 13. Emma and James were using this song as a study tool when I arrived in Valparaíso, and we listened to it so many times that in my mind it will always be linked to our adventures in Valparaíso. This particular section seemed relevant, both in the lyrics linking to the imagery of the greedy fire, and with the very different romantic tone of the chorus linking in with Em & James who are one of the most solid couples I know! :-)
The full video can be seen here, take a look it's wicked!
When we began the stop-motion shoot I was thinking particularly about how with artwork it is important to find a balance between consumption and creation. At this point at Playa Docas I was aware that I was doing a lot of consuming without yet processing or creating. I was taking hundreds of photos and video snips, building up a library that I am now starting to use in editing. Em and James and I were chatting about how in creative terms it is possible to:
1. take in take in take in, until a point of saturation where there is so much material that it is overwhelming and you don't know where to start in making
or
2. to do the opposite, make and make and make without ever refreshing the library, until you reach a point of repetitive staleness.
As I wrote back at the beginning of the month, in the collaborative process of creating the stop-motion the imagery began to take on many different layers of symbolism, and led us to conversations about consumerism and behavioural patterns in capitalist systems, also contemporary connection or disconnection to the natural world. But returning to the initial trigger of creative balance, here is another relevant quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estés:
1. take in take in take in, until a point of saturation where there is so much material that it is overwhelming and you don't know where to start in making
or
2. to do the opposite, make and make and make without ever refreshing the library, until you reach a point of repetitive staleness.
As I wrote back at the beginning of the month, in the collaborative process of creating the stop-motion the imagery began to take on many different layers of symbolism, and led us to conversations about consumerism and behavioural patterns in capitalist systems, also contemporary connection or disconnection to the natural world. But returning to the initial trigger of creative balance, here is another relevant quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estés:
Wolves lead immensely creative lives. They make dozens of choices every day, decide this way or that, estimate how far, concentrate on their prey, calculate the chances, seize opportunity, react powerfully to accomplish their goals. Their abilities to find the hidden, to coalesce intention, to focus on the desired outcome and to act in their own behalf to gain it, are the exact characteristics required for creative follow through in humans.
To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of thought, feeling, action, and reaction that arise within us, and to put these together in a unique response, expression, or message that carries moment, passion, and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or censoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing or being.
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