When I see a vibrant flower, I imagine using it as a paintbrush. With the flower in motion, I can explore the interaction of lively forms and colors through a blend of digital processes. The final work is a delicate expression of nature's vibrant hues and intricate patterns, captured through the flow of pixels.

Once I have the video section I want, I run the file through an ffmpeg 🌹 script to prepare it to be glitched. Then I use a slightly modified version of ffglitch to create the glitch artifacts. There’s a lot of trial and error in this stage to get the pixels to flow in the same gestural way of the flowers. Because the file is essentially being corrupted, unwanted errors and colors can occur. I try to navigate around these which blur the line between glitch and design.

Once I’m happy with the look, I ‘bake’ 🌿 the file back to a stable codec with an ffmpeg script and bring it into After Effects. Here I composite the flower and my hand back onto the video so its form is not lost.

Over the years as I’ve found vibrant flowers 🌺, I’ve wanted to process them in the same way. However with operating system and codec updates, I’ve had to relearn and tweak the scripts along the way. This series has made me more comfortable with command-line editing and code-based glitch art.