The Stain as Event

Shot with a fixed camera above the canvas, these films record paint at the moment of contact. Nothing is edited out; the viewer simply watches a stain decide its shape.

Slowed to a fraction of real speed, the footage reveals a choreography of tension and surface that the eye misses at normal pace. Sound was recorded in the studio and left untreated.

Alongside the screenings, a set of ink studies on paper shows the same behaviour at small scale.