Entangled

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Thank you for all the views and likes for this animation. Please check out my website: • https://mikezef1.wixsite.com/mikonimator • • This animation is macabre and playful. Created in the Materials Workshop from spare wood. Thinking a lot about how 2D and 3D interrelate and by analogy mathematically 3D to 4D... (see Flatland by Edwin Abbott). • Was also doing an evening class in Meisner Technique developing an awareness of the interaction between characters... maybe taken a bit literally here! • A few other concepts in the back of my mind were: • Plato's Symposium and the notion of humans being split into two, seeking their other half and becoming whole, particularly the slightly comical ideas described by Aristophanes. • Carl Jung's ideas about the Animas and Animus. • The Yin Yang symbol. • There is also the notion that we are a sum of parts, bones, organs, limbs, ideas forging our sense of a unique self and identity. • One viewer on here provided feedback referring to the game and Science Fantasy world of Warhammer 40,000 and some lines from its literature: • From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal. - (Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus). • According to wikipedia in the realm of Warhammer 40,000 Humans fear artificial intelligence and creating or protecting an artificial intelligence (or 'abominable intelligence' ) is a capital offence (although most 'crimes' such as petty theft or adjusting machinery are also capital offences in the Imperium). This comes from the Dune novels. As in the Dune setting, the prohibition on artificial intelligence was passed after an ancient war against malevolent androids. • There is an element of AI and creation of life theme to the animation, the two boards are like bones fusing and then the wool wrapping around is like some synthetic flesh from which the eyeballs somewhat grotesquely pop out. Reminds me of a scene from the movie The Fifth Element where the character Leeloo is re-created, woven together with strands. • Once I get better at CGI I might revisit this theme in a different way... • Other possible unconscious influences I can identify are: • Pink Floyd's The Division Bell album cover sculptures by Storm Thorgerson. • Guernica by Picasso with it's stark white figures.

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