After taking images of trains I was pretty sure that I could take any moving vehicle out of its environment in a similar way. I have shown here the example of a fire engine. The work is visually not as strong as the trains and perhaps has less meaning of speed – trains look fast – while the emergency services bring connotations to the work which are not relevant to this project.
Here I have done the same thing, only with a person. I feel this could have real potential for conceptual work. It works as it takes the person out of space and time, however, it is extremely challenging from a technical perspective, to create this video took over an hour of my time, plus additional rendering and required me to use four different pieces of software, still the quality is low – look at the jagged lines – I do not feel I could present something like this as to me, it is unfinished, but this could certainly be a future development of the work.
Knowing the quality wasn’t where I wanted it to be I produced this video. It took an extra hour to run through another program to add extra frames into the video. It is of lower resolution and has some strange artifacts, but it proves that the quality can be improved. I would run all my videos through this program, but it would take around a day to process each one then, and I would still have to clean up the artifacts. It is interesting to see there are more options to continually refine the artwork in the digital age – nothing can be the final piece as there are always improvements to technology.