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IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011   

 
Sara Suleman
Digital Animation, Color, Sound

Converge
Digital Animation, Color, Sound
Total Running Time: 2 minutes 40 seconds
Dimensions variable, SD Video
2010

Description: 
Converge represents the interstitial gap between reality and fantasy, a time when birds converge in the sky out of their own accord, denoting freedom and movement. This happens as a daily occurrence in Karachi. By transforming it in drawing, I seek to trace out the patterns of the birds and recreate their movement in my imagination- light, ambiguous, circling-- slicing their way across the expanse of the blank screen.

   
Hand Drawn frame by frame animation, Color, Sound Hand Drawn frame by frame animation, Color, Sound
Hand Drawn frame by frame animation, Color, Sound  

Seen/Unseen
Hand Drawn frame by frame animation, Color, Sound
Total Running Time: 1 minute 37 seconds
Dimensions variable, SD video
2009

Description: 
Seen/ Unseen is a hand drawn animation that evokes the unconscious through the use of symbolism and metaphor. It explores the state of being in two places at one time. 
The Animation “Seen/Unseen” came about as a result of creating individual drawings and altering them frame by frame, also by hand, to capture the process of creating a mark on paper and how it is changed over time. Each drawing was then scanned in or captured in to the computer creating moving sequences. Each successive drawing represents an imperfection arising out of the process of copying by hand. These sequences are then layered and altered through time further emphasizing the effect of lines as a meditation on the image.

   
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