Factum //
mutatum
Illustration / Animation / Gallery Installation
January - May, 2025
As a participant of Webster University’s 2025 DADAH Senior B.F.A/B.A Exhibition, I indulged in my favorite self-taught medium: frame by frame animation. Factum // Mutatum is my largest animation to date, consisting of 667 hand-drawn images.
Factum // Mutatum both consists of and is about the kind of betweenness that animating elicits. I display both the final product and its components together as to appreciate what they both offer. To get from one point to another, to change, or to evolve, there has to be a period of ambiguity or abstraction. And while it appears from afar that this period may have never existed, it is what the eventual wholeness is built upon. A majority of the frames in Factum // Mutatum are unidentifiable as stand-alone images, yet the success of the piece would be lost without them. The fluidity of the animation requires hours upon hours of effort that feels so menial and endless in the moment, but the reward is contingent upon it.
Factum // Mutatum was featured in Fruition, a B.F.A/B.A Senior Exhibition at Webster University’s Arcade Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri in May of 2025.
To view the design work I created for Fruition, click here.