Tina Lane

Video

A short moving image using my photography and finger drawing on the laptop mouse pad.  I have become more and more interested in moving image so this was a great opportunity to use images I already had for a project in a new direction. We use what we have available to us in lockdown. This I believe is one of my strengths, I adapt. I like many artists have been hit quite hard by the lockdown and with little in the way of money and resources it was up to me to find new ways to continue being creative. The added sounds are also from my own recordings.

It is a visual representation based on the theory by James Lovelock of Earth’s atmosphere as “a component part of the biosphere rather than as a mere environment for life” (J. E. Lovelock and L. Margulis Tellus, 1974). It starts slow, that was deliberate.

Of course most of my images are of Japan, specifically Tokyo. Actually I did consider should I use those and then thought actually it is perfect as a people they do have a greater understanding of working together as part of the whole than we in the west.