@jakejfried

"Still Life with Lemons" by Jake Fried - Edition of 30

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out on paper. 5 second loop. Sound design by the artist.

Uniquely defying the trappings of any genre, Fried’s optical illusions transmit an air of primordial longing, with the artist’s own audio compositions syncopating the flow. A multidisciplinary maker who shifted the course of animation with his uniquely rhythmic shorts, Fried’s looping animations fuse timeless nirvana with digital discord - ultimately revealing the singularity between user and technology.

Fried’s foray into the NFT realm not only elevates the quality of work discussion for all animators, it immortalizes an incredibly painstaking process - call it a MAXIMUM EFFORT. In artworks captured one frame at a time and destroyed through creation - these motion paintings continually regenerate themselves.

Bio: Jake Fried (b.1984) began his artistic career as a painter, but as he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he realized what truly interested him was the way the images metamorphosed in the course of making a painting and he changed tracks to become an animator. His experimental films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern and Sundance Film Festival. He has created commissioned work for clients including Adult Swim and Netflix. Fried uses ink and white-out, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create mind-bending animations that evolve at a frenzied pace.