devout Iongings

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Devout Iongings is a 2D animated study that stages a love story between a woman presented as a statue and a man, set against a precise squared grid that reads like a designer's working surface. The composition arranges silhouettes and pedestal like platforms, while repeated outlines and layered strokes give the figures a sense of echo and temporal displacement. The statue's stillness and the man's movement form the central opposition, through which the work examines the pious desires people impose on the interpersonal bonds they form.

Visually the piece relies on clear contour drawing and iterative transformation. Simple lines are doubled, shifted and overlaid to produce effects of stuttering motion and memory. These are methods familiar in 2D animation such as frame by frame layering and onion skinning, used here to make time visible and to suggest emotional reverberation. The grid functions as more than background. It acts as scaffolding, a measure of stage and process that lets us follow each morphological shift as if watching the animation being drawn into being. Produced as a staff project in 2023 2024 the work demonstrates attentive use of layering, repetition and silhouette choreography.

Thematically the work folds the notion of platforms into its argument. Literal pedestals hold figures in space, while social and psychological platforms shape expectations and roles. The repeated contours and shadowed strata imply that desires are built upon stacked frameworks that both raise and confine us. The power of the piece comes from how a restrained, linear visual language converts sculptural silence into the possibility of touch, longing and refusal.



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