 Artist BIO
My work in the past has been emotional and excessively painful to make. It has focused on issues of personal relationship. The relations have dealt with self and love, self and god, and self and gender. My work has focused on symbolic imagery, along with sound, centering on performance-based acts and personal images. I was more concerned with content and thought on a living level than in regards to a technical masquerade.
Presently, I am changing my approach and focusing on relative concepts in the eyes broader demographic. I have been exploring the ideas of ritual, death, imagination, and technology through the artistic mediums of video. Sound has been integral to my present work, and the imagery is starting to become more representational than literal. Through art, I am learning more about myself in relation to society: how I feel, how I interact within parameters, how I think, and how I see are all concepts that are being observed. My art is growing and I am growing as a result.
I hope my work is encouraging others to think and grow as well, however art is a somewhat selfish release for me. It is my crossword puzzle, my participation in personal problem solving. It is a way for me to think, respond, and most importantly, in regards to what I am now starting to realize, it is a way for me to have fun if I wish to do so.
justinheim78@gmail.com
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VIDEO SYNOPSYS
Towel Tossing is a short, video work that was completed with the help of a Canon Digital Rebel XT. It was shot frame by frame with still photography, then edited with Final Cut Pro. The artist, Justin Heim, is responsible for all production and post-production work.
The piece's main focal point is the inevitable union of mankind and technology. It is a prediction, a foresight, and a vision as well. Balance is also another key issue that is brought up throughout the piece. The water changing levels in the plastic cups is a prime example. Also, the duality of the apples is another balancing entity.
Food was used for it is natural and we consume it. Apples could be looked at as imagery from the garden of eden as well, the place where Biblical humanity began. The apples play like people, luring their mate in. And over time we see the union of the apples, the red one taking on the characteristics of the green. The same happens with people as well, we become who we are closest to and stay ourselves at the same time, like an apple keeping its color. Technology is future. It is our destiny, as of now, to become more technologically advanced. Towel Tossing is a comforting view of the scary future that we are going to live in. Everything unknown is scary, or at least can be at some points. |
CREDITS
Directed by: Justin Heim
Screenplay by:
Photography by: Justin Heim
Camera: Justin Heim
Edited by: Justin Heim
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Master: DVD
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