Traits

The Painted Cloud - traits:: In the creation of this video, each young artist self-identified their own positive traits as the anchor point of their self portraits. Guided by teaching artists Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman, young artists worked with stop motion, watercolor, sound sampling, color pencil, vocal recording, and collaborative performance. Young artists used a variety of tools including paints, pencils, cameras, light tables, and professional audio recording equipment. Conceptually, young artists engaged in dialogue to share how and why they self-identified with their positive traits and observed that together as a collaborative whole, there are similarities, differences, and variety among them.

The video features the work of each young artist (ages 5-8) attending the September-January 2022-23 sessions at Dreamers Welcome in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The audio is an original score created by Julian, using audio samples of percussive sounds created by the young artists.