Seeing Double

This year’s media art inquiry project at Renfrew Elementary School emerged from the illusory world of lenticular image-making. Together we experimented with scanimation and photography to create flickering printed images that don’t stay still — that change depending on how we see them. To warm up, we practiced storytelling, improvisation games, free writing and sketching. We dabbled in hand-making paper-based kinegrams and agamographs, finally culminating in our final project of photo-based lenticular images. We used our time in the studio to stretch our ability to hold complexity and contradiction and to stay curious about how creativity and cooperation can change the way we see the world. We worked to hold two images together without throwing one away. We worked with our two hands, our two eyes, and sometimes our two (or more) truths all at once.

This project would not exist without the tools and frameworks offered by members of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) collective and their Depth Education series. Thank you also to Mindy Zhou at Infinity Printing and Guy Brisson at SoftMotion for making the final printed images possible.