Los Angeles, CA
Hands Mosaic Project
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
length: 2:00

Picard’s Hands Mosaic Project is comprised of three animations [horses, gibbon, cheetah] of animals in motion. The animals were created from still images of the artist’s hands, which were positioned to mimic the shape of the animals, and then collaged together in a mosaic form. While each piece is only seconds long, it is made up of thousands of individual digital photographs. Picard composed frames, made up of single hand gestures. These works offer a brief return to childhood, with thoughts of making a shadow puppet with our hands. Formally, the work is a mix of pixilation and a mural technique using a grid over the image to translate a smaller image on to a much larger surface.

www.danepicard.com

About the Artist