Buildings too hold accretions of memory.  In their windows I have found a place to blur the distinctions between indoor and outdoor; between public and private.   In animation I find the means to depict a macrocosm in transition, a destabilized place with order struggling to rearrange itself.

In my recent media installations, I have drawn upon oral histories, newspaper snippets, home movies, and archived documents to assemble a series of narrative fragments and associative images that, while resisting a coherent story form, provide a system of leitmotifs or recurring images that play out and coalesce meaning. 

Coming Events

Entitled 'In Situ,' my public, multi-channel animated installation will premiere in multiple windows of the Pearl District's historic Maytag building during the inaugural PLATFORM International Animation Festival to be held in Portland in June 25 – 30, 2007.  An exploration of place, this piece will reference the building’s past while focusing on an individual’s compulsion for keeping things organized, in order, and in their place.  I expect the piece to be self referential with inclusion of visuals from my past direct animations as well as sampled references from works by Len Lye, Norman McLaren and Nam June Paik.   I anticipate the aesthetics to echo new influences in character design from Berlin’s Pictoplasma group and to continue my exploration of montage animation in multi-channel, site-specific projections.  

Judith Gruber-Stitzer, who composed the track for the Academy Award nominated animated short 'When the Day Breaks,' will create an original music/sound score.  This will be a free, public media event meant to be experienced from the streets at NW 12th and Hoyt in Portland, Oregon.

Rose Bond, September 2006