prayer as operating instructions.
1' x 2'
acrylic, paper, glue, ink, printouts
on double 1' canvas
corresponding video: WASH YOUR HANDS
*squeeek*
is a project featuring short stop-motion
animations + a series of 1’ x 1’ canvases joined
together as two panel paintings.
animations here:
*squeeek*
riffs on Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Silence Of The Sirens, the hand-washing prayer and old fanzines among other things.
"Gregor had a shock as he heard his own voice
answering... unmistakably his own voice, it was true,
but with a persistent horrible twittering squeak behind
it like an undertone, which left the words in their
clear shape only for the first moment and then rose up
reverberating around them to destroy their sense..."
The persistent horrible twittering squeak of our voices
it is.