Brief:

Produce a 2-3 mins moving image illustration of the
quote below:

‘I try not to make it completely random or sloppy, but there has to be a wild part. In writing, you have to go off into the stratosphere and then come back down. That’s what I like, when things spin out of control but then are pulled back so that they’re yours. I want them to be accessible, but not so easy that you throw them away after a second or two.’

Jenny Holzer

Solution:

A sequence showing the creative process of a painter named Brian Nicol, who’s working dynamic echoes the artistic process that Holzer comments on: ‘—you have to go off into the stratosphere and then come back down’. Brian Nicol is documented slashing through his paintings and reworking them into an unanticipated result.

Duration: 3 mins