Vian Esterhuizen comes from over a decade-long career as a front-end web developer and is using this experience to explore the intersection of digital and physically based art, with a focus on using his knowledge of accessibility to create more accessible art.
Dead Things brings focus to endings. Endings which are blurred by fear and uncertainty can give us clarity. This series sees endings through their own lens, allowing them to be more than just a separation between before and after. When endings are only a vantage point to reflect on the past or anticipate the future, we alter our perspective of what came before and what comes after.
In “Rewinding the Tape” we recognize an end. We may have chosen that end, or it may have been chosen for us, but either way something must end before it can start over. When we allow endings to have a meaning of their own instead of just being the genesis of something new, we allow what follows to have its own meaning as well. Dead Things is a choice to see the beauty in the end, it’s a choice to be present in that end and experience it for what it is.
An end is layered. An end has depth. There is value in the end.
The end is not one. The end is layered. The end has depth.
There is value in the end.