There’s something rather both meditative and masturbatory about Kelton Sears’s self-described “poop loop”.
The GIF is a simple black and white digital drawing of a balding male figure, in a yogic squatting pose, expelling a smaller version of himself. The smaller version tumbles in free fall, and after spinning into a Christ pose, becomes the bigger version we see at the beginning of the loop.
Here, pooping back and forth forever with one’s own self suggests that our tiny and big egos are continually tossed in a cycle of consumption. The raw material is always in a constant reprocessing state. Similar to Piero Manzoni’s “Artist’s Shit”, the literal physical release could conceivably be a metaphor for artistic labour.
This work is part of Digital Sweat Gallery’s “Belfie Stick” group show, on now until November 18. Also worthwhile checking out are the comix animations Sears creates for the Seattle Weekly, like this “GIF Comic Tour” of legendary clay animator/Frank Zappa collaborator Bruce Bickford’s studio.
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