JANUARY 2, 2024 KATE MOTHES

Tomohiro Okazaki’s new video features more than an hour of meticulously staged optical gymnastics using matches.

One recognizable everyday object is given the spotlight in Tomohiro Okazaki’s painstaking yet playful stop-motion animation. His new video features more than an hour of meticulously staged optical gymnastics using matches (previously), from simple balancing acts to hypnotic transformations in which the wooden sticks and red tops interact with words and materials like paper or acrylic. As the montage progresses, Okazaki’s compositions become increasingly distorted, stretching the imagination through hundreds of uncanny scenarios.[…]

Source: Marvel at Tomohiro Okazaki’s Feature-Length Montage of Matches Performing Optical Tricks — Colossal