Halfland; a Strand of Pearls - Speed Post: 2 of 12
“How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver.” — Rumi Made a random stack of large paper pearls to string across the art space. Each pearl represents a different scene in Halfland, from large to smaller to tiny blip. They hang on a string individually and can be endlessly rearranged, in no particular size pattern, to make up the film's series. The scene name gets written on the pearl in chalk as they are begun, until the whole strand is named and completed. An example of a big scene might be the underwater sequence, where everyone's fish puppet gets a featured second. A smaller scene might be the bug party, if you can believe it. So many hundreds of hours for what will be no more than a 5 - 8 second sequence of noticing the insect festivities on our way to Rana's cottage. A tiny scene , such as the Queen Bee silhouette inside a pomegranate flower, leaning out to look at us, is but a Halfland moment. It's my way of i...
