HOPSCOTCH: A GAME OF CONSTRUCTION: Hopscotch: a Construction in the 4th Dimension

This work can be understood on two planes - intellectual and visceral. On the first plane as the synthesis of Russian Constructivism, Pollock and Cortazar’s Hopscotch - and there is a lot to parse here. “A game of construction” refers to Pollock’s quote which I often riff on as “some chose neural networks” but also to Constructivism - their manifesto suggests time as another dimension in constructivist art. My palette is also refers to this movement, while Cortazar’s influence appears in the form of the visual narrative - nonlinearity, randomness, staccato of frames, urban roughness of chalk patterns and going beyond logic.

But above all this work might be enjoyed as the visual treat - the pleasure of hopscotching through the frames - it’s about the joyful and playful nature of geometry - a game of constructing with shapes

Created: Jan 2023-Mar 2024 Soundtrack by Mikhail Galkin