Ahhh Matchsticks Series by Charly Fasano

Charly Fasano here. Check out a little preview of my newest project.

Ahhh Matchsticks is a dance before the flame.

Ahhh Matchsticks is a series of drawings that I have created on canvas and turned into a series of animated sequences. It is a study of how patterns and movement emerge from random configurations of an item that can provide safety and warm or produce unmitigated disaster.

As if someone dumped a box of matchsticks on the floor, the unplanned patterns that emerge in my drawings create their own kind of movement. When arranged in stop-motion sequences at varying frame rates, the drawings become an undulating dance of shapes that are rhythmically hypnotizing.

Here is a sample of some of the film sequences. The series of drawings range in size from 6x6 inches to 30x30 inches and are drawn with acrylic paint pens on un-stretched canvas.

Stay tuned for more news and previews of upcoming Ahhh Matchsticks zines (Walk Off Hot Issues 7 and 8) and short film screenings.

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