murmuration

final cut of murmuration video

murmuring still

still from video




struggling with the video edit
decisions around: exposure, sepia tone,timings, 

technicalities of exporting still from imovie

playing with sugar paper and white ink

poor quality images

3rd one was started with eyes shut

enjoying the repetitive shapes and natural looking forms from using brush

able to produce blurred, 3D like illusions from repeatedly painting over same marks

some marks looking like bird forms

islands and rivers

islands and rivers

i'd seen footage of murmurations before but this clip by islands and rivers that went viral last year gave me goosebumps and stuck in my mind.

at the same time I'd come across some black and white still images from a guardian mag of the shapes,

this also coincided with doing a nightly drawing in a diary before I went to sleep. the idea was I would be thinking about the day and using a biro see what came out, often the shapes and drawings reminded me of flocks of birds and the starling mumurations.

all these links have been going over in my head unconsciously,.

when thinking about my next project, there's a pleasing parallel between the starlings roosting nightly, settling and getting comfortable and me doodling to settle my mind to help me sleep.