Midnight Moment, Photographs courtesy of Ka-Man Tse for Times Square Arts, 2018

 

Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2018) 16mm to digital video, animation with fabric, 2048x1080 pixels

Posthaste Perennial Pattern fuses synthetic floral fabrics in a stop-motion animation that pulsates as if capturing a garden in bloom within a single moment. Mack playfully subverts the association of these textiles with stable, quiet household settings and furniture through this frenzied presentation of patterns. The interplay between the imagined passive domestic interiors that the patterns were intended to decorate, the graphic, two-dimensional illustration of organic matter, and the technologically imposed chaos becomes further amplified on the electronic billboards of Times Square. Text courtesy of Times Square Arts and Museum of Art and Design.