Sunglaze from Jak Ritger on Vimeo.
Thinking in the fourth dimension is actually a moronic thing to say because it is impossible for a person to not think about the world in the fourth dimension. We are humans and in order for a human brain to process information we must observe how it changes in time.
Even looking at a freeze frame of life, a photograph, we are letting the image change over the split second that the image is new to us. First we focus on the image, then we pick out something that grabs us, then we observe the image as a whole and come to a conclusion about it based on our unique experiences and association habits. That is why photographs are so powerful, because the fourth dimension is constructing a unique experience for our viewers in their mind.
Time and change are the sculptors of our visual world.
Using these intangibles to create and you are animating.
Thinking in 4d is thinking about an object or image becoming incrementally different and what that would look like.
Imagine taking a leaf "taking pictures" coating it in a polymer as to harden it "" printing the plastic on paper "" Tracing the outline "" cutting a stencil of the outline "" spraying the stencil on a wall "" chipping the wall away around stencil "" using charcoal to frottage the texture on paper "" scanning the rubbing into a computer and layering all of the pictures and scans of paper into one image of the history of change of that leaf at that time in that why.
Now do you need to see that image? and if you did would be able to decipher the process? and if you did would if be any more satisfying than thinking about it?
If the answer is no then the art is the process.
My first video post is a hand-drawn loop. I sat down at my lightbox without any idea of what I was going to draw. I doodled two frames then realized a direction.
