Morango, Jabuticaba, Amora

^{Strawberry, Jabuticaba, Blackberry}

(2023)

A mutoscope that consists of 3 hand-drawn animations that move at different speeds. The wooden piece has two horizontal axes vertically aligned, and a motor attached to the top one. As the top axis rotates at 6rpm, it also rotates 3 different sized pulleys that then rotate another trio of pulleys attached to the bottom axis, making each of them rotate at different speeds.

Each of the 3 animations represent the phenological cycle of a different fruit. I chose the fruits based on the time it takes for them to bloom and ripen in comparison to each other and linked that with the rpm of each segment of the sculpture. The strawberry is the fastest one, taking only 3 months to generate the fruit, and the animation is rotating at 12rpm (or 6 frames per second). The middle one is the Jabuticaba (also called Brazilian Grape tree), that takes 6 months to produce a new fruit, and it’s rotating at 6rpm (3fps). The slowest one is the blackberry, rotating at 3 rpm (only one and a half frame per second), the plant usually takes up to a year to generate fruits.

This sculpture was produced with the financial assistance of the ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum 2022 Scholarship

Mônica Moura

Morango, Jabuticaba, Amora

Strawberry, Jabuticaba, Blackberry

^{Strawberry, Jabuticaba, Blackberry}