Lulu Baker-Samson - BA (Hons) Fine Art
I am fascinated by the mechanics of cinematic language and the power of visual metaphor. I explore how meaning falters, shifts and transforms to offer new visual possibilities. Working with moving image, I create layered visual narratives that invite viewers into unstable, shifting realities, to disrupt conventional perceptions of linear storytelling and the stability of cinematic space.
This current project grew from a personal fascination with a bug trapped in a piece of million-year-old amber, which led me to reflect on humanity's place within 'Deep Time'. Influenced by the surrealist and Op Art-inspired spirals featured in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), along with its themes of obsession, repetition, and illusion, I used the spiral both visually and aurally, as an emotional vortex - a metaphor for the limits of human consciousness when confronted with the vastness of geological and cosmic timescales.
The insect became a metaphor for our own inescapable truth - like the insect, we are suspended in time - raising a fundamental question: how do we endure knowing we are just a flicker in the spiral of time?
