The Fading Piece
Lau Ching-wa / Hong Kong
This is a duo stop-motion animation. The animation on the right shows a diminishing pastel, while the left animation reveals the development of a line-drawing on the Kwun Tong landscape, simultaneously, line by line. In reality, the animation on the left is drawn by the pastel on the right.
Artist's Statement
Substances and energy are unceasingly circulating. A stop-motion animation in the virtual world is formed when the pastel in reality transformed into the scenery (Kwun Tong) on the paper, simultaneously, line by line.
The animation is the recorder as well as the carrier of the energy. I spent half a year to make this animation. Every stroke I drew, I had to record the drawing and also the pastel. I repeated around 14,000 times to finish it. I tried to highlight the process of the creation of animation and this is a long meditative process of making it happen.
