Anomie

“To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsion and expansion, the inspiration and expiration of the world in which we move.”
Goethe

In a meditative, ritualistic atmosphere, a digital moving painting Anomie expresses a sense of drift, disintegration and instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values. With its vivid colors and palpable aliveness of flowers it reminds us of a nature on which we rely for a more organic connection and purpose. The people in crowds are caught between the sense of loss and a desire for wholeness in the ongoing flux of connections and separations. This effect is achieved by recording and manipulating natural shapes and colors via a variety of digital techniques. With layered images merging figures and flowers into an animate kaleidoscopic collage, Anomie explores the enigmatic borders between artifice and nature, the technical and the intuitive, the female and the male, at a moment of unprecedented crisis in what it means to be human.