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Animator, artist, educator. Check out my films on vimeo.com/ruthhayes, and flipbooks for sale at https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuthHayesFlipbooks.
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More phytograms of witch hazel flowers, this time with a few mahonia blossoms and filbert catkins soaked in turmeric infused chemistry and left to develop on Kodak Vision 2 color negative film stock for 18 hours in the greenhouse. #phytography #experimentalanimation #cameralessfilm #ics_film

If you’re near Pullman WA or Moscow ID, do come view these films produced by members of the Abortion Clinic Film Collective March 3rd and 4th! www.abortionclinicfilmcollective.org

Olympia Washington today

A sequence I made in 1989 in response to US interventions in Central America, updated.

www.abortionclinicfilmcollective.org I’m happy to be part of this gang of sympathizers!

Winter phytography experiments using witch hazel flowers in turmeric infused developer, on 4 different film stocks. Exposed for about 2 hours under regular room lighting on a gray snowy day in the PNW. #phytograms #directanimation #experimentalanimation

Thinking about the arrogance of renaming major land and sea forms, manifest destiny and the sordid history of US imperialism, I realized it might be time to reshare this from 1994. vimeo.com/26890004

Seattle area friends, Gimlet will screen March 7-8 as part of the “larval” edition of this new animation festival. I hope to see you there! seasluganimation.com

Paranoia flipbook, available for your flipping pleasure at www.etsy.com/listing/1134...

The Flipbook of Revelations, from 1987, sadly still relevant.

Elon’s Inauguration Day salute with facial hair.

More from the Olympic Coast.

Sketches from a recent trip to the Olympic Coast; La Push, Rialto/Mora and 2nd Beach.

WA State is daylighting road culverts so salmon can swim further upstream. This is a recent one down the hill from our house. The chum salmon are swimming past it, following the stream as it gets shallower and narrower, spawning and then dying. Nature can heal herself if we get out of the way.

Greetings, BlueSky community. I’m an artist/animator living in the deep blue PNW (though it’s pretty gray here now). Here’s a sample of current work. Any other experimental media artists here? Keep making art; it will help us get through impending horrors descending on our country and the world.