Little Canary Tweets: Pondering

I have been aching for a long time to get back into producing my own self-indulgent animation but like many folk looking to make something personally relevant, I find it very hard to generate and hone in on a theme that really makes my fingers twitch to get started. Much as Anselm Kiefer said in 1990,

"The works are but aspects or traces of a theme that in human concepts, in language is not representable. All of painting, but also literature and everything that it is connected to, is always but a circling around something unsayable, around a black hole or a crater, whose centre one cannot penetrate."

In an attempt to figure out how to make sense of the abstracts in my head and find a unifying thread to work with, I began to collect images for the last few years, that I felt gravitated towards this sparkly shadowy creature that lurked in my head but refused to tell me its name.

Funnily enough, I started to realize what I wanted to pursue when I saw the handing over ceremony from London to Rio for the upcoming 2016 Olympic Ceremony. It reminded me of this musician Mitar Subotic and the track Sereia (Mermaid) When I hear that kind of music, it instantly conjures up in my head, lavish jungles dripping with iridescent jewel-like dew drops and tropical flowers, nocturnal creatures and curling knotted plants. The images below hover around the realm I'm talking about. When I connected my treasure trove of images with that music, I realized I knew what I was after in an atmospheric sense, I just lack a theme. I have recently had an idea of what I want it to be about, but it requires further stewing.