Some video tests using cheap xerox prints and diptych strategies to combine images of “tunnel rats” and exposed sewage holes around my family home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. “Tunnel Rats” were often shorter American troops who crawled thru underground tunnel systems in search of Vietnamese guerrillas who built the tunnels to evade aerial assaults. The sewage holes are a result of a contemporary botched real estate development on land that formally trained guerrillas to fight the French and American colonizers.
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Modeling the Phong Phú Commune in Hole Story
Over the course of 2020 and 2021 I have been learning 3D modeling to supplement my camera-based studio practice. These models will supplement camera-based footage in Hole Story. The models produce an uncanny appearance as camera-based footage, which is captured with without depth, is warped and modelled into a 3D landscape that does have depth and its own parallax.
Work-in-progress model of the Phong Phú Commune (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), image still from computer rendering, 2021.
