'Animal Kids' - 2002
Computer animation with stereo sound, 6mins

An animal slowly shakes his head to and fro in careful movements. The sound of rain or maybe a campfire is heard and light flickers gently on the surface of the animal. Suddenly, witha clap of thunder the head lifts up to reveal a girl in an animal suit. She opens her mouth to scream and the effect is that the animal suit morphs to a new animal. She lowers her head and the viewer is once more met with the dopey animal face moving to and fro.

'Animal Kids', is an experiment in a reduction of narrative to basic symbolic occurrences.

So in this way the work explores the manipulation of the viewer, through waiting and repetition a kind of mesmerising effect is achieved, punctuated by the excessive drama of the morphing scream.

The work has been shown at 'Fiction & Love', Moca Shanghai, 'Blind Date', temporarycontemporary, London, projected over 30ft high in the 291 Gallery, London, and visible in a hole in the ground 'Private', Aldgate Pump House, London.

Stills from 'Animal Kids', showing a morph from Fox to Deer:

Stills from 'Animal Kids', showing the other animals:

Installation at 'Private', Aldgate Pump House, London, curated by Swapna Tamhane