Here’s a colorful roundup of videos found and described by the color lovin’ blog, shape+color (Happy 2 Years!) which has always been a reliable and sharp source for inspiring content.
Acid Washed by Anthony Burrill
Some vintage-tinged graphics from U.K. designer Anthony Burrill.
Press + by Benjamin Ducroz
Grainy, twitchy, glitchy, water-coloury, brown-papery goodness from Benjamin Ducroz’s abstract animation “PRESS +.”
Dream Focus by Adam Joy
An exploration into the connection between colour, memory, emotion, and imagination.
“DreamF Focus” is part of an on-going visual investigation into dreams by Adam Joy:
“Color is as much a symbol as is the imagery in a dream. Color appears to represent the emotional conditions that stimulated a dream or dream image. As with any other symbol, color combines with the imagery to form a more complete “meaning” for the dream image.”
Glass Pyrogrpahs by Estuko Ichikawa
To create her works, which she calls glass pyrographs, Tokyo-born, Seattle-based artist Etsuko Ichikawa trails streams of molten glass, Jackson Pollock-like, across paper.
The resulting tendrils of ash, lacy yet fire-scarred, are both jagged and flowing. Like lightning piercing a very dry forest, the organic reaction between fire, air, and earth is elemental. Cycles of existence tracing each other – both earth that grew wood to become paper and earth that was hewn into sand and then melted into glass. It’s a molecular home-coming; the lost long relatives of stone and arbour reunited, lifetimes later, evolved into higher states, through fire.
The resulting burnt etches, smoky (literally) and lithe, are described by Ichikawa as a “continuing investigation of what lies between the ephemeral and the eternal.”
Two Dots by Lusine & Britta Johnson
A magical video for Ghostly International artist Lusine’s “Two Dots.” Directed by Britta Johnson, it lives at the geometric intersection of mathematics and emotion. Where love and passion follow concisely laid out scientific laws and there’s a theorum to neatly explain the trajectory of desire.
