Artist Statement

Time and memory are strange, fluid things for me. I spent the majority of my teenage-hood in places I probably had no business in, experiencing joys and horrors far beyond the scope of high school football games or prom night break ups. As I look back on who I was, what I saw and did, and how it informs who I am today, I struggle to pin any specific emotion or lesson to any of it. I chose to express this in cacophony. Layering bright, duotone punk flyers under an assortment of the motifs and objects that I feel express the strange, raw, and complex emotions and experiences that define this period in my life, I seek to express the entangled ball of emotions I feel looking back. The use of different transitions, speeds, and the winding and unwinding sense within the composition both seeks to emulate a traditional song structure, harkening back to the place music played within my life, and to illustrate the many different non-linear ways I feel and remember. In addition to this, I utilize a discordant combination of audios, largely musical, to create a sense of dissociative chaos in emotion. As I find myself further and further from this portion of my life, I recognize more and more of the absurd nature of it. Though I am sure, in time, there will come some profound lesson or overarching feeling from these memories, this piece expresses the unfiltered and unorganized ruckus of being a delinqent. 

Adobe Premiere, DSLR Photos, Photoshop, Audition

"Don't Know Why" Jesse Harris, Wyatt Rollins

2026

Reflection

In working with a software that I have experience in, but have never gotten to be particularly creative with, I found this experience to be a good opportunity for play.  I wanted to use as many different functions of the software as I could without using the regular video editing functions I am comfortable with, including more traditional stop motion animation, as well as different transitions, effects, and time-based alteration. In doing so, I feel that my process greatly informed my finished piece, as the same aspects of play and chaotic inclusion play well into the narrative I intended to create. Because of this, while my finished piece does play well to its own concept in composition, I feel that in some ways it does not feel as professional or complete as I prefer my work to seem. In the future, I look forward to creating more intentional work utilizing all of the things I was able to explore in this piece, but also continue to explore the more raw compositions that express certain emotions that make me uncomfortable with the "unpolished" nature of my work.