This animation from director and animator Renee Zhan is weird and wonderful and existential and it will fulsomely reward you for the 16 minutes you entrust to it. Never mind that the filmmaker describes it this way:
“A woman who can’t stand the passing of time sucks everyone and everything she loves inside herself to keep them with her forever. Eventually, she turns into a black hole.
“A thousand unchanging years pass inside her dark embrace until one day, the Singularity wakes.”
It was a cold day some time in 1998 along a seemingly vacant beach in Loyola Park. A lonely vendor ventures, ever hopeful, into what would seem a market wasteland and…
…he scores! Considering his small share of the sale price, he might have been better off eating his own merchandise, but he aspires to more than just feeding himself. Will he succeed with this pushcart? The odds are: He probably did not. But who knows? These customers appeared out of nowhere, after all. I suspect them of purchasing nostalgia as well as sweets. Sugar and childhood! How’s that for a sure thing?
Photo by Roman.
Photo / graphic by Roman.
Where am I? My situational awareness is absent, reduced to warmth… comfort… bed… and as I begin to awaken I seem to rotate within some delimited space, falling toward a maximum probability until: I fit! That’s right. It’s night. I’m in bed and not at all ready for the day, which it is not. If you love me, I will sleep.
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Here are my selected photos from the 2002 Artists of the Wall event that is held annually in Chicago’s Loyola Park. These are scanned film prints once again and, once again, I know nothing about the artists except that there are a set of regulars over the years. 2002 was, I think, a pretty good year. Judge for yourself:
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Photo / graphic by Roman.
Photo / graphic by Roman.
Photo / Graphic by Roman.
Photo by Roman.
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