In Passing suitcase

  http://www.bookapothecary.co.uk/

A suitcase holding a set of mechanical animations manually operated by turning a handle on its outside. The animations are made from films and animations shot from moving view-points. The multiple groups of image sequences derive from films that are taken of environments seen in passing; on foot, by train and by road. Still images are extracted from these films then bound onto cylindrical drums using book making techniques.

The image sequences become animated when a handle is turned on the outside of the suitcase rotating the drums. Taking inspiration from early kinetic animation machines and reworking their form and subject.

Using animations related to moments of direct visual encounter and with manual control over the passing of time this work is concerned with ideas of visual interest, self-regulated subjective experience and the role of viewpoint to the formation of understanding.