Whitney Yuen

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While looking through the work of animator and motion designer Min Liu for a research paper, I stumbled across this Instagram trend from a few years back named The 100 Day Project. A project started by the group The Great Discontent (TGD), the whole premise of this movement was for artistic creators to do one of a certain thing everyday for 100 days. For example, Liu made a short 2D cel-animated gif everyday for 100 days. The examples given on their website (which can be found here) were:

 

"For example, one student made a poster in under a minute every day for 100 days; another danced in public every day and made a video; another student, Rachel Berger picked a paint chip out of a bag and responded to it in writing for 100 days."

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I chose to take a few seconds of video of objects in my immediate surroundings and digitally animate on top of the footage.

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This piece celebrates the everyday. In most cases, important aspects of our lives can get easily forgotten about due to routine, habit, and repeated exposure; we see certain things so often that our brains naturally make them invisible to us. Instead, I turn these forgotten moments into the focal point of my work, altering each instance slightly to give people a fresh perspective.

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Completed March 24 2017.

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