The picture above shows a beautiful girl. Nobody could imagine that these pretty eyes of hers would be such a captivating subject for a piece of art such as the following video.
The creator of this sweet video, Stone House, is an artist and illustrator from Seoul, South Korea. He magically managed to present a woman's entire life in fast motion. The painting itself becomes the vehicle for passing time. Amazingly, the girl you see in the video is always basically the same painting.
The video follows a woman through imagined stages of life by repeatedly changing the same portrait. Each alteration connects the next face with the one just seen.
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Track one feature through the sequence
The portrait's continuity is what makes the transformation compelling. A face changes, yet enough remains for the viewer to experience the sequence as one life. Small alterations gather meaning because they follow what was there before: a different outline or expression belongs to a continuing image rather than an unrelated replacement.
Painting allows time to move at the artist's chosen pace. Years can pass through a few visible changes, while a feature that holds attention gives the sequence a point of return. The result is an imagined life in fast motion, shaped through artistic decisions about what to keep and what to alter. It is neither a prediction of an individual's aging nor a documentary assembled from annual portraits. Its subject is continuity within change, made visible on the same painted surface.
Photography approaches repeated portraits differently in Peter Funch's 42nd and Vanderbilt: Returning Faces in New York, where returning faces are encountered through the camera over time.
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