As previously stated, one of the main aesthetics of this piece is flatness. I wanted to capture this firstly so that it could represent the flattening of affect shown by the character, but also because there is another manifestation of flatness within the narrative - the flattening of time. The aperture that opens between past and future collapses the distance between them, and I wanted a way to show this visually. That is why I decided to have small, two-dimensional shapes flash and spin around the opening, further establishing it as an other-worldly presence. This is also a link to my interest in abstraction, which is a process of flattening in itself.
