A New Equation

Analog + Digital =

Painting + Video =

Art + Movement =

TEXTURED EVENTISM

A Testament to the Living Moment

in the Age of Screens

Envision the once-in-the-universe entity inside you experiencing the journey of living your one and only movie — moment by moment, frame by frame. Textured Eventism is a distinct form of art that documents the event of the moment.

Blending analog and digital processes, Textured Eventism reconstructs and creates a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, stillness and movement, the present and memory, and solidity and the ephemeral.

A moment in reality is recorded cinematically and projected onto and through the interpretation of a painting, becoming a witness to an event existing across the past, present, and future. The art itself becomes a textured event.

This idea reaches back to the prehistoric caves of Chauvet, France. Paleolithic artists created painted movies in the dark. A bull appears with eight legs, suggesting movement, while a moving rhinoceros is shown through a sequence of heads. The images existed in total darkness, meant to be seen by firelight — creating a shifting play of shadows that brought them to moving life. It is a shared human impulse that connects directly to our fascination with the moving screen today.

In a world of growing artificiality, where algorithms increasingly produce experience, Textured Eventism stands as a testament to the living moments we touch and perceive — even as those moments increasingly blend with the simulations of our screen-filled age.

“For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". — Albert Einstein, physicist

 “There is a fundamental distinction between a still picture and a movie… You bring your time to the painting; the film imposes its time on you.” — David Hockney, artist

Event: In physics, a specific physical occurrence that happens at a definite point in both space and time.