Encounter #2: The Road to the Bridge
This week's Encounter is with 9 to 5'er artist, Ellen. Ellen works as a professor of art at a college in New York City. Outside of her job, Ellen enjoys cultivating her personal artistic voice through various visual arts media which include drawing, painting, and animation. For her Encounter, Ellen has chosen to share her animation The Road to the Bridge. If you would like to learn more about Ellen and her work, please check out her bio on The Characters page of this website.
My Encounter with Ellen has actually been a longstanding one and her unique quirky artistic voice has left an imprint on my own. In her art, Ellen captures emotion in the nuances of the ordinary and everyday and, as a result, she has shown me how art can push the boundaries of perception of ourselves and the world around us. I admire Ellen's endless curiosity as an artist which has led her to recently venture from her formal training background as a painter into the world of animation. Ellen brings together the beauty of movement in drawing and music in her animations and tells her stories with a perspective that is simultaneously humorous and reflective.
With that said, without further ado, I introduce to you our Encounter with the artist, Ellen:
P.S. I encourage you to check out more of Ellen's animations on her Vimeo page