Crowded is a hand-drawn animation made by erasing and redrawing graphite. It depicts a shifting figure, made temporarily fixed in its form by variable contexts. Sometimes that context is a piece of drawing paper, a lover or a room. These changes and momentary consistencies explore how we remain single identities throughout internal and external changes. The erasure and redrawing contribute to the same inquiry. The disappearances and reappearance of the figure from frame to frame enable its continuity in animated form. It is through gaps in and reconfigurations of ourselves, that we remain a perceivable self over time. Crowded has some expressive sci-fi/fantasy elements surrounding the theme of reproduction. As a heightened example of self-formations and transformation, the video explores the contingencies and twister magic that result in a new human life, the great metamorphosis of producing a child.
