Portent Sequence 1 is the first sequence in the portent project by Jared Pappas-Kelley. This video and sound composition contains portents 38, 3, 67, 14, 42. Each composition is sequenced through chance operations that select the colour/emphasis, order, and proximity of each from the 74 total portent images/sounds which each only appear once.

“The notion of a portent is intriguing in that it attempts to make a perceived truth in some way visible—one might say it points like a finger. As an artist, that is often what I find myself attempting, to make a truth visible and to bring it into proximity, so that it might be perceived before sticking my finger in your eye (oops, sorry I never said it always works, but there must always be some risk involved). Holding up a thing for you and saying silently this is important, it means something, and if you look in just a certain manner, you might see something previously imperceptible about yourself or this place where we are. Perhaps this and this are the same and this and that are not, but it is always more interesting to show what is the same (for me at least).”

Sequence 1: step 1: 38; colour: 2 step 2: 3; colour: 4 step 3: 67; colour: 2 step 4: 14; colour: 2 step 5: 42; colour: 3

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