Growing Up
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Growing Up is a fragmented absurd surreal narrative that weaves together familiar motifs from my video works, each symbolizing aspects of my childhood. The oversized, awkward costumes mirror the silliness I feel when socializing with friends, embodying my sense of not fitting in. Scenes featuring leaking water in a home setting subtly allude to imperfect family dynamics. The recurrent presence of washing machines symbolizes a yearning for clarity and the desire to cleanse the complexities of familial relationships. Another recurring theme is the synthetic indoor forest coupled with smoke towards the end, a representation of my childhood fears and oversensitivity to the ecological issues about climate change while growing up.
AI generated music & sfx by Alice Gordon
Audio explanation
Listen to Alice Gordon discuss this work.
Alice Lane Gordon has been long engaged in the meditative practice of sketching and doodling. While these have been constants in her life, artificial intelligence has recently become the catalyst for professional practice to emerge.
Identifying as a raw AI maximalist, she shuns post-editing processes, and her artistic journey is marked by extensive exploration and experimentation with AI text-to-image and text-to-video tools. Alice draws inspiration from the surrealist movement, infusing her work with a passion that manifests in a distinctive style she terms "absurdist surreal lonerism." This approach reflects her philosophy, capturing the essence of solitude and the absurd in a visually compelling manner.