Mothership Opera
A golden spaceship awakens after a thousand-year stasis and blasts off toward its planet of origin.
The Metro Art: Digital Shorts series features short-form video art and animation on large-format, digital screens at 7th St/Metro Center and Hollywood/Highland Stations.
A golden spaceship awakens after a thousand-year stasis and blasts off toward its planet of origin.
“You start every day and try to keep on moving, but when you find yourself in an environment where meaning shifts and you have the opportunity to question its essence, it is like looking at reincarnation from aside: how process involves different states of being and perspectives.”
Set in a not so distant future, we envision the streets of Los Angeles unhindered by the inefficiency and congestion of the internal combustion engine.
Between the texts are holes where the sunrise peeks through the paper. When the sun sets, only the dots appear but when the sun rises, the light penetrates the paper to reveal the texts – the memories in between.
“Owambe,” loosely translates to “it’s here” in Yoruba. This animation focuses on the subtle, unconscious rhythms that happen at an owambe.
An exploration of psychological time meant to offer an intimate encounter with movement in solitary space for Metro ridership.
The Metro Art: Digital Shorts series features short-form video art and animation on large-format, digital screens at 7th St/Metro Center and Hollywood/Highland Stations.