failure in a medium

failure: The second image was created almost exclusively with a Xerox machine, using the first image as a source. These are two stills (numbers 1 and 325) from an animation that will be previewed tonight at the Berwick.  I began with a mostly blank page, with a single word: FAILURE. Failure is an extremely important motivator for me. Perhaps more so than the possibility of success, the looming idea of failure is what keeps me moving.  This is not an ideal relationship with the concept, though. It is important to understand failure on some level as a bit of feedback from the world about the approaches and techniques that don't work and perhaps the ones that do. The notion of failure is really the disparity between expectations and results, with a certain amount of judgment about this gap.  Expectations of the world are not always arrived at through a thorough understanding of the subject, but can often come about through a casual application of desire. 'A photocopier should make copies.' correct but what is the mechanism by which it operates and how can that be exploited. Please feel free to come by the Berwick for the introductory talk, I will show some slides, talk about process and preview this short animation.  It'll be a blast.