'currents' - a short story

a short story about my tumultous inner emotions

Core Idea: a story with just 1 digital sculpture in different lightings/angles
Medium: 3D + written word
Outcome: 10 panels
Year: 2024
Time spent: an evening

I went over to my best friend’s place and played with their iPad, specifically with the 3D software Nomad.
I played with sculpting and ended up with this alien-totem-skeletal creature.
I tinkered further with lightings and angles as I sculpted more and more.

After feeling fatigued and seeing that there was not much more to add, I wrote a short poem to befriend the sculpture.
I had been feeling quite in-my-head-spiraling-ruminating-and-wrestling, hence the raw and self-encouraging verses.

This artwork is quicker than most of my usual artworks. I was curious to try a different pacing, one that emphasized fleshing out the core feeling more than executing and over-fixating on the “finished-ness” of an artwork.

I had soooo much fun coming back to 3D after more than a year away from it. The iPad and Apple Pen’s intuitive mechanical experience was really pleasurable to work in, compared to my usual mouse & keyboard interface.

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