watering a plant [1/3]

I started this series with the intention of making "digital wine". My hope was that I could capture the parallels of alcoholism and the compulsive, alienating nature of today's digital media. The need to keep scrolling/have one more drink. The negativity of indulging these compulsions and the isolating nature of removing yourself from the temptation. I began with an image of Lambrusco grapes which I "juiced and fermented" by running the image through many generations of compression. Each stage of this produced a unique image of increasing degredation. I strung all of these images together and made the animation monchrome. I then anthropomorphize a single grape. The series takes it's name from the final line of Charles Bukowski's - Love is a Dog From Hell. “there is a loneliness in this world so great -that you can see it in the slow movement of -the hands of a clock. -people so tired -mutilated -either by love or no love. -people just are not good to each other -one on one. -the rich are not good to the rich -the poor are not good to the poor. -we are afraid. -our educational system tells us -that we can all be -big-ass winners. -it hasn't told us -about the gutters -or the suicides. -or the terror of one person -aching in one place -alone -untouched -unspoken to -watering a plant.”