Category Archives: TIME & ATTENTION at Ironton

Little Ironton Movie

Here’s a little trailer for the Ironton show, to give a glimpse of the wonders that unfold from The Unsecret Block (plus some other bits). Quick and dirty, perhaps, but a movie, as promised. 32 seconds, so settle into your chair. Comments explicitly invited. Eric Waldemar: Time & Attention from Eric Waldemar on Vimeo.
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Things that appear:

Representation may not be the point, exactly, but I often do enjoy it when “pictures” appear. In general, I find that in general, apparently non-objective works tend to begin as deliberate “pictures of something,” while on the other hand, virtually none of the most apparently mimetic works actually began that way. Whatever I try to [...]
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Slices from the Block

A few of the 111 sheets from The Unsecret Block. The simplest way through each brief moment of animation is to go down each column from the top left. There are many other ways to navigate the block. Movies to come in the near future.
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The Unsecret Block

Over 1600 images on 111 sheets. This “block” is threaded through in a variety of ways to create three distinct pieces of animated visual music. This installation, which includes both video and still images, will appear as the centerpiece of “Time & Attention,” opening at Ironton on October 23rd. Esoteric secrets of abstract animation will [...]
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Silence is Layered

While movies assemble still images into various illusions of motion, monotype printmaking compels one to select and freeze a moment in a fluid work process. Some of these images include multiple “drops,” which makes the concept of “moment” somewhat more complex. A series of decisive instants are rendered as simultaneous, by way of translucent stratification.
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Time & Attention: October 23rd-November 28th at Ironton in Denver

“Images in series often implicitly refer to temporality, but few serial works delve into time and space as directly and viscerally as Eric Waldemar’s new multimedia works, which will appear in Time and Attention at Ironton, starting on October 23rd. In The Unsecret Block, the centerpiece of the show, Waldemar teases rhythm and motion from [...]
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