Cage Match Dress Rehearsals (2021-23)

Overview

Cage Match Dress Rehearsals is comprised of numerous studies of a single instant in time, a sports photo of an MMA cage match. These collected studies are divided into four sections: "bodies and patterns set to motion," "rippling bodies all mixed up," "pattern expression of the space itself," and "liquid darkness". The studies were all generated by my own code applied to the sports photo in real time. During recording, code-assigned keys on the computer keyboard were set up to trigger visual changes in an intuitive and improvised way: formal effects, layerings, collapsings, swarmings and ripplings of fractal spaces. A soundtrack was added later.