16mm hand-processed high contrast film, b/w, sound, 5:13, 2020

The great whirlpool arrives and sucks everything into its center, spitting out only fragments and noises. The shoreline is in view, but unreachable. The maelstrom pulls us under.

This 16mm hand-processed high contrast experimental film is covered in scratches and scrapes, giving the impression it's been retrieved after many years from the bottom of the sea.

Texts: Poe (1841), Melville (1851), Oxford English Dictionary (2020)

Image sources: Debes (1784), DaVinci (1517), Galileo (1612), Magnus (1539), Seaborn/Symmes (1820), R and E (2019)

Music: Morton Feldman,Structures For String Quartet (1951).

Performers: Seymour Barab, violoncello; Matthew Raimondi, violin; Joseph Rabushka, violin; Walter Trampler, viola

From the album John Cage / Morton Feldman ‎– Music For Keyboard 1935-1948 / The Early Years New World Records, 2007

Maelstrom

Print edition: Nine two-color prints (blue and metallic copper), each 12 x 15 1/2 inches,

in silk-screened portfolio case signed by the artist. Edition of 30

 Drawings from the hand-processed animated 16mm film Maelstrom, 2021, by Jenny Perlin, after the story A Descent Into the Maelstrom, 1841, by Edgar Allan Poe.

 Printed by Rakish Light in Los Angeles, 2021.

 Printed and exhibited in conjunction with the exhibition Jenny Perlin: Maelstrom at Pitzer College Art Galleries Claremont, California September 11-December 11, 2022