Ryan Trecartin

I'm a big fan of Ryan Trecartin. In this interview he likens the editing process to more traditional media and describes it as painting with footage. I'm nearly finished with editing my footage, it has been unexpected how much traditional processes used in painting such as framing and glazing are present in this work. 


I feel an affinity with Trecartin's description of editing, it's like painting back over a primed surface and layering imagery to develop a meaningful image.


Other works of his I have looked at which play with pictorial traditions: