A Small Handfull
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my first month of handhelds! Yippeeeeee
I did my first one months ago, mostly as a little game to see what if I could. I was flatlining a bit w my art so I wanted to try something new. It was fun, nothing too serious but also a bit more challenging than I was hoping to have a coherent message. So I kinda j pocketed it. I saw them again and showed a roommate at the time, and she was like “u gotta farm tf out of this” and I was like “o wait tea”. And it was August 1st.
I was booking it when I j started. I had ideas, tests, experiments, and flows I wanted to try. It felt like it was my first time w the medium again. Everything is on the table, nothing is done before. There’s the occasional voyeur-type parts of sculpting on a train in my work clothes, but it felt like a very contained and personal experience. Mostly cuz nobody gaf on these trains (love). If I didn’t finish it on the way to work, I finished on the way back. If I wasn’t going on the train, I’d be on my stoop finishing up. Or j inside cuz it was too hot last month. 30 days later, I hit my goal of doubling my tiktok followers. And they act rly enjoy it! Ppl find meaning in the works, and they find peace + curiosity as well. I go into my pieces pretty aimlessly so to see ppl have a connection w them is wild. There’s been a few days since I started thatve been rougher - the piece is rushed, the idea isn’t there, or it’s already past midnight and I haven’t started. But these daily practices are paying off.
It’s the first time in a while that I’ve seen my skills actually get better. Comparing my first handheld to my last is crazy. I have a better comprehension of motion, resizing, and reshaping the figures. I get a better sense of timing, and I can’t rly check the video over and over as much since time is of the essence. It’s the tight restrictions on my art that have rly pushed me forward.
A big shift too was making pieces without intention or meaning. I rly do like making art abt things, and I hope to address issues in the world thru art. But these r pretty mindless. I j hop on the train and get my clay to dance a lil bit. I don’t care abt the longer term impact of these pieces, nor do I rly care abt preserving them too much. It’s art abt nothing. Imjfß. sry I was falling asleep but that was a funny string of text lmao. idek what the last character in that is like thats so crazy. but making “meaningless art” has been a way for me to test new styles of animations. I never had to make a frog jump before. I never had to warp clay around my hand. and I never had to just make abstract shapes. People have found meaning in pieces I made that I never really intended to have meanings. thats art fr.
Its a cool form of public art that I hope to be creating until the end of the year rly. I could see myself doing them for years tbh as long as im still in the city. Daily practices rly push creativity too, and Im finally starting to enter a period of more formal artworks. Excited to see whats next.?.
Love,
Faraz
ps. ya im late sue me tf i was eepy and working on a stopmotion
pss i basically gave up on the short film icl. ive though of how to recycle the parts I made, and might just do that. I can break apart the scenes into individual pieces but my art pre-handhelds just dont do it for me rn. ive been going out a lot too so i j dont have the time at home smfh.
psss. good morning
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