May
United States
Artist Statement
Description
“Blush” is a visual expression of an unseen frequency, a portrait shaped by sound, suggestion, and systems just beyond control. Emerging from the waveform of an original audio composition, the piece captures a moment where emotion becomes form, and abstraction brushes up against figuration. There’s a sense of something intimate but ungraspable, like memory surfacing in a dream.
Process
This piece developed in parallel with my project Transmissions, which explores translating sound into image through real-time processes. I had recently begun pushing toward a more painterly approach in my video work, and became curious what would happen if I froze that process, isolating a single frame mid-animation. I wanted to see if that suspended moment could hold the same emotions as the moving image.
Tools
The image began as a screen recording of a digital oscilloscope reacting to my audio. That footage was used as input for an AnimateDiff pipeline, which interprets motion and texture through a form of AI-driven style transfer. The process blends visual suggestion with generative abstraction, shaping the piece frame by frame. The final still was selected from the animation and finished in Photoshop for color balance and subtle touch-up.