Kelley McClure

  "Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information." Marshall McLuhan My goal for this video was to capture the kinds of issues I have interacting and interfacing with the world on a regular basis and the unease and discomfort that I've routinely felt trying to do so. So many restaurants and bars are stuffed to the brim with TV screens, being in a crowd feels suffocating, and I can't even look away without bringing a distraction of my own. When everything is too much at once and it doesn't stop, it gets difficult to sustain many things, even those that "should" be simple. As such, I layered the crowd footage (which was one shot for around 15 seconds that I took the legs and feet of) with different blend modes and opacities and scaling to create the illusion of more than there was, edited the colors of the video to feel unnatural and off and too bright ...

 I've never particularly understood how to introduce myself. Part of this, of course, is due to having continued struggles with knowing what is expected from me, with knowing what people want to hear about or would actually be interested in listening to. But another part is that, in the moment, and often in general, I can't figure out the words to describe who I am in a simple set of phrases. When I write characters, I have the liberty of taking as long as I need, the liberty of being able to describe a person through their actions. However, I am expected to use words for myself, and words that paint something cohesive at that. Likely, then, it is little wonder that I seek stories, that I have this need to create within me (even when such a thing is frustrated by my hand freezing up by having no ideas what I could begin to draw), and that when I write lyrics, it is from perspectives other than my own. After all, I do not know what in my life is notable enough to focus on, and I...