The work was open for viewing only during the Summer Screenings 2024.
FOUR WORD PLAY AWAY by Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer USA (2023)
“Four Word Play Away” is an experimental animated poetic visual collage that combines hand drawn animation, captured moving images with animated words and human vocalization. The concept refers to the notion that four letter words are loaded with special meaning. My experiment was to use “stream of consciousness” to connect four letter words and let their meaning build randomly. What does this mean? relates to the DADA sensibility that inspired this effort. The Dadaists were reacting to the absurdity of War.. This moving image works in that mode.
Director’s Statement
My painterly animations are created using many methods. Past canvas, sculpture and performance works inform my output. Sound and text are dynamic elements. Current digital media experiments fuse hand drawn image, captured video, sound, visual text and voice, creating a personal moving poetic image. “Four Word Play Away” the most recent iteration, is meant to be ultimately presented as part of a live performance and/or installation piece with a parallel existence as a stand alone moving art work.
Bio
Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer is a New York City painter/animator/new media artist who produces still and moving images that encompassing a myriad of methods. Her background in painting and performance art informs her practice. Sound is an integral element. The focus of her current animation and media work is to fuse the sensual , spiritual and the intellectual , creating a personal statement with time based images. Her moving and still art works have been represented in international galleries, venues and festivals .
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
