'Waiting Room': Jake Fried's Spiritual White-Out Animation (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: Updated: 05/10/2012 10:39 am

White Out Animation

The latest in artist Jake Fried's "moving painting" series features a cluttered room, men in hazard suits, and a Hindu deity. The medium for this unlikely trio? Good old white-out. According to Fried's Vimeo page, the Boston-based painter is using black ink and white-out to bring out the transcendent.

"Parts of my work definitely reference aboriginal designs and mythology," Fried wrote to a commenter. "I recently traveled to India and that visit influenced a lot of the imagery and symbolism for this particular piece."

In "Waiting Room," an interior room rapidly forms and transforms as Fried layers hand-drawings in sped up succession. The final images resemble Javanese puppets and old bronze statues (an uncanny effect of the layered white-out, or perhaps Fried's tweaking, is an aged greenish tint). Check out the video below, and head to Fried's site for more of his white-out creations.

WATCH "Waiting Room":

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01:12 PM on 05/11/2012
woah!! this is incredible! i love this so much!
06:54 PM on 05/10/2012
These look like shamanistic visions...
06:51 PM on 05/10/2012
that is so incredibly cool Jake. wow!
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06:48 PM on 05/10/2012
i need to meet his dealer
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Careful with that axe, Eugene
06:50 PM on 05/10/2012
Could you help a brother out?
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Always look on the bright side of the abyss
06:37 PM on 05/10/2012
Just one word for this: ...wow...
06:45 PM on 05/10/2012
As I was watching that I was thinking the same thing. That, and amazing...
06:36 PM on 05/10/2012
Amazing!
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05:18 PM on 05/10/2012
Brilliant
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I owe, I owe. It's off to work I go
05:33 PM on 05/10/2012
Couldn't have said it better myself.