Patterns and Textures of Chaos and Calm
A collection of works by Paul Fletcher
August 2024 – January 2025
Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen
A collection of short works by artist and animator Paul Fletcher, that converge into a longer pattern. A series of sonic and visual episodes traversing moods and atmospheres from our natural worlds of chaos and calm.
Header image: Symbiotic Pulse, Paul Fletcher, 2023
Deep Sea Mysteries
I have very little experience of beaches and oceans let alone the deep underworld of the ocean that many ancient animals still inhabit. This is a digital collage of patterns and textures creating an atmosphere inspired by stories of deep sea creatures that live in total darkness and inhabit a world where sound travels many times faster than we here it above ground.
A Dynamic Stillness
This was the result of spending several hours from about 3am to sunrise filming, photographing and recording sound at Winton Wetlands.
What struck me most was the incredible sense of quiet and stillness yet at the same time bustling with life and movement of many different speeds or timescales at once.
Can Robots Swim?
A question inspired by thinking about artificial intelligence or machine learning. Wondering about the limits of such machines and the subtlety inherent in all nature, mechanical or flesh and blood. Visually another fascination with patterns of waves from ocean to mountains to human movement and thought.
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Snow Globe Earthworks
I have always had a fascination with ‘snow globes’ little microcosms that you shake and watch settle. This seems something like the process in this audiovisual composition.
Texture is the Melody
Recollections, memory, sensations all become a texture that we carry around in our bodies. Rather than a single line, many elements become the melody of everyday life. This film combines digital painting and rotoscoping, generative and sound driven visuals with super 8 footage. Perhaps some of the texture of collective and individual memories, or traces ,of the late 1970’s /early 1980’s.
Microtonal Space 2
An audio space of microtonal sound produced entirely with pure sinewaves translated from visual images. A responding visual space of simple forms and patterns reminiscent of micro and macro spaces. Originally presented as an installation at the Lisbon, Cinemateca , Portugal, as part of Punto Y Raya Festival 2023.
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Competing Patterns of Thought (extended version)
Somewhere in a distant galaxy of noise…Our thoughts connect and reverberate,
At the end of the day they return home, and surprise us with their apparent clarity.
The Symbiotic Pulse
The visual rhythms and patterns formed within and between all living things, store memories, communicate meanings and embody their own forms of intelligence.
A short film version of this multimedia installation of suspended sculptures, lights and projection.
(Bendigo Edition of the installation)
Paul Fletcher
Paul Flecther is a filmmaker, musician, producer and artist. His many animated and experimental films have been screened locally and internationally, including TecnoBunny (1995), and Pop Psychology (2014) at Ars Electronica. His animation Drive To Work won best site specific installation at Zagreb MSU Animafest 2017.
