"The music video for an acoustic song by Los Angeles-based Emory, Fernandez's film cycles through 300 tiles that reveal a small rabbit hopping across the frame, children running, and a spindly, line-drawn flower blooming and wilting. Each carved character is set within the grainy patchwork, which highlights the medium's particularities through irregular edges and differences in the glazes. Combined with the physical manipulations required of stop-motion, the ceramic animation is a poetic ode to an unlikely pairing of tactile media."
"Also featuring a rabbit and a flower, this playful compilation is a clear precursor to the techniques and characters that shine in "Dirt." "Seeing a material that's supposed to be still and permanent begin to move felt like magic, like I had cracked some code in reality to create movement that should otherwise be impossible," she said. Watch more of the artist's ceramic animations on Instagram."
Julia Fernandez spent mornings in a Brooklyn studio photographing a rotating grid of 12 ceramic tiles to assemble the stop-motion animation Dirt. The finished music video cycles through 300 tiles that reveal a rabbit, children, and a spindly flower, using grainy patchwork, irregular edges, and glaze differences as visual texture. The process pairs ceramic craft with frame-by-frame stop-motion, emphasizing tactile manipulation and material irregularities. Earlier experiments included an etched cup that functioned as a zoetrope and featured similar motifs. The work demonstrates how static ceramic surfaces can be coaxed into movement through photography and sequencing.
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