Fluid Skin - Video Experiment

Fluid Skin

In this 2 minute long video experiment one continuous shot shows water flowing over skin. The footage was left almost entirely as it was apart from a slight curve (Warp Tool - Adobe after effects) in the image from about 1 minute in. The colour was left unedited as the natural light, delicate and soft\ complemented the imagery well. This was filmed indoors in the morning on a bright but clouded day.

This piece follows on from my line drawings, prints and photographic experiments as it has expanded the language of those experiments though movement and colour. It has also transformed linguistically as the word 'fluid' has now been used literally as a noun to describe the piece, 'Fluid (on) Skin', whereas in the previous experiments it was used adjectively to describe the work.

I feel this piece worked well to respond to my sub-theme of fluidity in sex/gender and also the ever-changing state of the human body. 
This was before the audio as the audio much developed the piece and has given me ideas for a developed video outcome.

Reference links here - Beuys, Ovid and Whitman
-Whitman - I sing the body electric.
-Beuys - Process in work, everything in a state of change. ever changing body, described here by fluid on skin
- Ovidian transformation? organic timeless motifs?

Footnote: Audio added later. I created the audio in audacity sampling Arca's track 'Obelisk' for the background rhythm/beat. The vocals are for the most part taken from the poem 'I sing the Body Electric' by Walt Whitman, which I have edited and cropped and computer generated for the length and feel of the clip. Also sampled was an interlude 'Parents' from Gil Scott Heron's 2010 album 'I'm New Here'.

This track takes the style of a 'mashup' and for me adds extra texture to the feeling of the video (perhaps too much, too cluttered or complicated). I like the computer generated vocals another layer, maybe recognising the digital nature of this work, or questioning the reality of the body. It certainly adds more layers to the work and places one of my strong references at the fore.