Time: Sequential Recut

For my rotoscope, I wanted to make an animation taking about losing innocence. As everyone started their life as a infant, and usually infants are symbolic to angelic and pure, for they have naive characteristics and have no knowledge of the world. As one goes through the stages of growing up not only physically but mentally, while physically one becomes stronger, faster, and taller, but mentally is where one would grow controversially “stronger” and when the meaning of “stronger” comes in play to my piece, I believe that as one grows up mentally, they began opening their eyes and minds to the outside world where they were protected by their innocence. I wanted to resemble their innocence to a growing bud of a flower, as in relation to the second Buddha, who’s gain knowledge of the future and teaching the society to use the information of the past to learn about the fluid future. In using the symbol of that, I wanted to put it in my own meanings, as one grows up, he or she not only learn the good in society, but also the bad. And I wanted to show a girl who learned the worlds of the hardest hurdle, which is abandoned by the society. This could have a understatement of being casting out, feeling left out, or physically being abandoned by a loved one. This subject tests the question of “are people born with evil?”, because this is a question that was asked various times throughout my years of education, most of the times I never thought twice about the question because one, people can be born to be selfish and evil, but other times, I believe it is the influence of society that makes one evil.

The girl once learns experiences the past, she will use that information and learn about the “fluid future” as I learned a lot about in the Rubin Museum. During that trip, I have thought a lot about the second Buddha and growing in a Buddhist environment for 8 years, I believe that the future is literally fluid.

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