Early study

Bazaar

The Bazaar is a dynamic motion painting that captures the vibrant pulse of Cunda Island's historic marketplace, where centuries of Indigenous culture continue to flow through daily rituals of commerce and community.

In this living canvas, the cacophony of voices rises and falls like music - vendors calling out their wares, playful banter between old friends, and the subtle negotiations of daily trade. The dense choreography of bodies moving through narrow passages creates its rhythm, as shoulders brush and hands exchange goods in well-practiced motions. Every corner of the bazaar tells its own story: fishing nets hanging like sculptures, wooden crates bearing the day's harvest, and weathered hands passing products that have traveled from earth to market.

The work reveals the profound intimacy of local commerce, where farmers share not just their produce but their lives, creating an intricate web of familiarity that has been woven over generations. These individual elements - fragments of dialogue, tools of trade, gestures of exchange - merge into a living, breathing composition that cycles through its daily renaissance, each day both familiar and new.

The piece was created through an immersive documentary process, where raw footage was gathered on location and transformed through careful layering and composition. Using a pure analog approach, I combined direct recordings with captured moments of material elements - textures, objects, and organic forms - orchestrating them into a visual symphony. This methodical collaging technique, free from digital manipulation, allows the authentic essence of the bazaar to emerge through multiple layers of reality, presented as a seamless temporal experience through various display mediums.