
Hello everyone,
For the past few months I have been working on a collaborative project between a poet, a musician and an artist.
BIRDS IN THREE DIMENSIONS is a project created by Writer and Lecturer
Susan Sandercock. Her vision was to create a collaborative project that brings together poetry, art and music as one. Each of these artistic media is a ‘dimension’ and together the ‘three dimensions’ – as in life –form a complete piece of art with
ambiguous messages and both euphoric and unsettling connotations.
Susan originally contacted me to produce a series of illustrations based on the poetry and to accompany the music by Michael Harding. As we discussed the project further I came up with the idea of incorporating the images into Flash animations to expand the experience.
The original illustrations I created using ink and collage. The project being aimed at adults the style is slightly different from my work in children’s publishing. Once I had scanned the images I took them into Flash and created animations that time with the poetry reading and the music.
Above are some examples of the static images.
The performance will be touring the country in late 2009/early 2010 with the first performance on Thursday 19th November at 7.30pm in The Pod at South East Essex College, Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1ND. Tickets are £5 each in advance or £4 each for groups of eight or more. Tickets on the door will be £6.
Contact Susan by email susan.sandercock@southend.ac.uk or phone 01268 456287 for more information or to book tickets.
DVDs of BIRDS IN THREE DIMENSIONS will be available for purchase for the first time at the Southend performance.
You can also join the BIRDS IN THREE DIMENSIONS Facebook group and follow the project on www.twitter.com/BIRDSIN3D
Hope you all enjoy it.