Two Nudes
two nude bodies are naked
together
side by side with a distance between,
strangers brought together in vulnerability
trying to get out,
cornered by two walls and the floor,
going nowhere,
ignorant of the other.
Far apart, two nude bodies are naked, together, side by side with a distance between, strangers brought together in vulnerability trying to get out, cornered by two walls and the floor, going nowhere, ignorant of the other.
The grain of the super-8 film further degraded when transferred to Betacam and projected life size at approx. 10% speed reduced movement to the barely perceptible. In a darkened space the colours were rich and fragmented reminiscent of a pointillist paint technique like the paintings of Pierre Bonnard; the figures moved and shimmered on the wall like one of his paintings with all the alarming undercurrent and intense paranoia. Nudity becomes naked, without ceremony.