14 June 2025
Two Sisters (1991) by Caroline Leaf: forms comprised of light, shadow, and scratched (film) marks assembling and disassembling. Color feels liable to swallow the scene at any moment after that wonderful establishing swimming shot—simply body and blue, the wake implied only by a line lassoing the figure's head. A generative approach that expands panoramically once the story moves inside the house on the island: the figures aren't of or in an environment, they are the environment. Those base elements distort depth and activate the edges of the frame into malleable terrain where the scene is the subject and vice versa; negative space as fertile ground...