RAIN ARCHIVE (6)

By: Blanca Rego
March 2, 2022

RAIN | 1998 | LISSA MITCHELL

Drops of paint fall onto the filmstrip like raindrops fall onto a glass ceiling. This rain is not a recording of rain, of something that once was there, or happened there. The frames are paint-stained, rain-cleansed. Drops create patterns and textures, splashes that give shape and movement to a film. Rain evaporates, paint solidifies. All drops are different, but the same. They embrace in puddles, like two lovers meeting again or an orgy of shapeless bodies.

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One in a series of 10 posts, contributed by HILOBROW friend _blank (Blanca Rego). See this post for more info on Blanca’s fascination with rain.

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