Beach-Bar-Video.MOV

I’ve prepared the time-lapse video for the Beach Bar panorama. I always knew this scene would be an outdoor beach bar or juice bar. As I added characters, the ideas of a kind of zootopian panoply of accommodations, species, and substories acreted. I did not plan this piece from the start - it came to me with each new addition. This speaks to the need to open our hearts to art that speaks to us as it’s developed. The experience of developing the work is a journey more valuable than the final 2D view.

At times, I explored the possibility they are on the end of a pier, on a rooftop, or in a street market. I thought back to Sydney’s quay district and how layers of history are told on older waterfronts like that. I concocted a headcannon wherein this is the location of the air cargo row in old Cape Suzette - 55 years later in 1989. I debated including a bonze place commemorating that industrial history in the seawall bench. Instead, I opted for a single tram ticket stuck to the bottom of a flip flop that says “Cape Suzette” and a fare date.

Most characters were started off screen and brought in like populating a doll house. Each building in the skyline was drawn in a separate canvas and installed. Barcelona, Sydney, Bordeaux and the late work of Ken Yeang and West 8 inform the architecture and tram station.

The pog is based on the first commercially sold pog designs separate from serving as bottle caps. There are some 1990s Easter eggs, such as a Keith Haring decal, Apartheid protest graffiti, and a regionally appropriate Bula Binaka decal. I tried to pick an accurate historic tied condition and write it in a format used in the global south. Everything was its own Google search or Wikipedia dive.

Go for a run or roll, get some sun, stay Pawsitive.