Below are a collection of stop motion animations created using digital collages. They were created frame by frame using Adobe Photoshop. These have been showcased as projections at events such as Steel Rails and Animating Danforth East.
Author: Elle
Subconsious Mapping
The inspiration for this piece came from classic children stories like Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland or Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow’s Wizard of Oz. A child falls into an alternate reality of adventure, left to battle monsters, confront bizarre characters and solve riddles. At the story’s end, the adventure is…
Ignus Fatuus
ig·nus fat·u·us : A phosphorescent light that hovers or flits over swampy ground at night. The premise of this project was to create a resonant chamber that expressed the acoustical experience of particular song. St. Germain’s song Montego Bay Spleen is a form of modern electronic jazz. A landscape was created using standard sewing pins imbedded…
Opaque Projector Live Animation
This live animation was created using an opaque projector. It accompanies the music of Toronto's own Pressgang Mutiny at ArtCave's Shindig, May 23, 2014. All images were created and animated by ArtCave's Naz Rahbar and Elfie Kalfakis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2bBe0jORao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2bBe0jORao
Drawing Divination
Messages come through very vividly for me as visual symbols. Creating illustrations that are a landing point for divine ideas has helped me to develop my craft both as an artist and a healer. Here you will find a collection of images created during meditative trances in hopes to cultivate divine knowledge.
White Owl Mystic Arcana
The White Owl Mystic Arcana is a collection of images created during a focused period of self discovery and alignment with the universe. The cards bring to the fore energies and aspects of ourselves, both individually and as a collective. Each image illuminates an energy that we can focus on to better understand our circumstance…
Camera Divination
Working with light and dark makes the camera an excellent tool for calibrating divine messages. I like to use the camera and photo editing processes to create still and moving images that invoke spiritual messages, and capture the ethereal aspects of objects and movement. These images are messages from spirit in a visual language. …
