Label Text"I am interested in exploring the concept of
boundaries through depictions of the interiority
and exteriority of the human body . . . I have
been working on a series of hand-painted
animations that represent different kinds of
physical and metaphorical transcendence."
Joey Fauerso
Employing both traditional painting techniques and manipulation through digital technology, Fauerso creates computer animations by making hundreds of watercolors that she then scans and edits into a video format. Her subject matter, informed by her experiences as a young girl growing up in a community that practiced transcendental meditation, centers on philosophical themes, such as questions about relationships between the human body and the mind, or life and death.
Fauerso produced this animation during an artist residency in Roswell, New Mexico. Divided into three segments, the video begins with images of the night sky, a blending of the New Mexican sky and star charts. In the second part, these images transition into a flock of birds in flight. The final segment shows a young man opening his mouth wide to reveal another view of the nighttime sky. This last scene was influenced by a story in the Hindu text, Bhagavad Gita, in which the young Krishna begins to cry and the earth, solar system, and entire universe are exposed as he opens his mouth. The soundtrack in the animation combines recorded sounds from nature with an original composition performed by the artist's father.
(David Rubin, Label Text 2012)
This resource has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.
