Hopscotch Sketches

Hopscotch Sketch from Whitney Warne on Vimeo.

Hopscotch Sketch from Whitney Warne on Vimeo.

Hopscotch: A game of awkward mobility. A game of singular ambition and choices to be made. A maze the only goes forward, unless you get stuck on the sides. An uncomfortable jump between spaces. A negotiation of the next move to be made.

These are video sketches for an evolving idea. My appearance in the video is for stand-in purposes only. I am not costumed or groomed, in fact, I'm straight out of bed on a Sunday morning.

Things that are working for me: The awkwardness of the movement. The grid-like space in a suburban setting. Still working with it, complicating the narrative a bit.

Chalk and Wanting

I'm reaching a ways back now, to the beginning of the school year. This is one of the first things I did when I arrived in Rochester this fall. My work is still focused on expectations of the modern female and the struggling between full-fulling those expectations, or turning away from them. Their is still a sense of complacency in this image. I've written the statement in chalk, which washes away at the first sign of weather. The idea of the thank you note, or being grateful, of doing what your mother trained you to do, is very present in this image. For better or for worse, we are trained to be something/someone. Behaviors become ingrained. And while we may consciously turn away from that person or puppet, instincts and agency are often at war.

Jen Denike

Thanks to Graham Walzer for this artist reference and finally inspiring me to get back to blogging. This photograph is a document of an infinite pirouette, performed by a LA ballerina and directed by the artist.The idea of turning in an infinite circle, perfect and flawless but untouchable, was something I played with last year in my tutu stop-motion video (never fully realized).

Press Release about this piece.
The gallery the represent both her and Kate Gilmore.