Tezos

suture

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{2022} :: laser print, scanner, GIMP selection tool :: @annaxmalina :: annamalina.com ------------------------ Part of a continuous body of work where I use the marching ants of GIMP, also known as marquee selection tool, to make animated drawings in my photography-based works. The dashed animated lines of this tool are meant to distinguish a selected area from the rest of the image and not as a visual component on their own. Because of that, they remain ephemeral. They can be saved in a work file, but not as an image or animated gif outside the workspace of GIMP. To do that, the image or animation has to be screen captured and reassembled. This removes the final work one step further away from both the analog original and its scanned digital version, causing its low resolution while fixing the ephemeral. "(...) I am 'captured, caught up' by my spatial image. Thereupon I leave the reality of my lived me in order to refer myself constantly to the ideal, fictitious, or imaginary me, of which the specular image is the first outline. In this sense I am torn from myself. . . . The general function of the specular image would be to tear us away from our immediate reality; it would be a 'de-realizing' function. (...) there is a kind of identity at a distance . . . the body is at once present in the mirror and present at the point where I feel it tactually." » Merleau-Ponty quoted in George Butte: Suture and the Narration of Subjectivity in Film :: https://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/frames/editing/Butte08.pdf

Traits

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gif

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animation

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