Upward Fall

Upward Fall is a single-channel moving image work that explores the contradictions between gravity and illusion, motion and stasis. The title itself presents an impossibility, an ascent that mimics a descent, echoing the oxymoronic nature of the work.

Drawing on the materiality of paint, Upward Fall captures a thick, viscous substance in real time, manipulated to defy expectations. Its dripping, oozing movement plays with notions of control and chance, where the medium’s unruly behaviour is both directed and allowed to unfold. Though the imagery may suggest computer-generated effects, the work is entirely analogue, crafted through camera-based experimentation and temporal layering.

The result is an uncanny transformation: paint becomes something else entirely, biological, cosmic, or synthetic, hovering between the familiar and the alien. Upward Fall asks viewers to suspend disbelief and sit with the ambiguity of the material, its surface, and its motion.

Part of the Wallace Arts Trust Collection.
Highly Commended, Eden Arts Art School Awards, 2017
Exhibited at:
Windows 98 – Pirsook Art Gallery, Shiraz, Iran, 2019
Windows 98 – Aknoon Art Gallery, Esfahan, Iran, 2019
Lightscape – Comet Project Space, Auckland, 2019