THE FRACTAL GUARDIAN PERSONA
Five-channel animated painting, edition of 5
The Fractal Guardian appears three times in Euphony’s Awakening: at the Encounter, the Revelation, and the Cosmic Dance. Those are its appearances inside the myth.
The Persona is the Guardian on its own terms. Four hands and a face, each on its own screen, playing at once. The hands open and close, revealing a symbol in each palm. The hands are silent. The face carries the sound.
Panel 1 with Hand horizontal
Panel 2 with Hand vertical
Panel 3 with Hand vertical
Panel 4 with Face
Panel 5 with Hand horizontal
HOW IT PLAYS
The five channels are started in sequence. Panel 1, then 2, then 3, 4, and 5, moving down the wall at a walking pace.
The backgrounds of all five are cut from a single continuous field. The delay between one panel and the next sets that field into motion, and it travels across the wall from left to right. Started together, the five would pulse in unison and the movement would be lost.
The offset is part of the work. It is not a synchronization error and should not be corrected.
Because the interval is set by hand, no two installations run the same. The piece takes its rhythm from whoever walks the wall.
ACQUISITION
The Fractal Guardian Persona requires five separate displays. It is not sold as individual channels, and no single-screen version exists.
Edition of 5, numbered and signed. $3,333.
Five video files, 9:16, 7:50 each, delivered with a signed installation document specifying panel order and sequence.
The Fractal Guardian Persona is a five-channel animated painting by Trenlin Hubbert, a companion work to Euphony’s Awakening, in which the Guardian appears at the Encounter, the Revelation, and the Cosmic Dance. Four silent screens show hands that open and close to reveal a symbol in each palm. The fifth shows the face, which carries the sound. The channels are started by hand in sequence so that a single continuous background travels across the wall; the offset is part of the work. It is an edition of 5 at $3,333, sold only as a five-display installation. Each edition includes five 9:16 video files of 7:50 each and a signed installation document.