Michael Bell-Smith, in his YouTube work Better Bouncing Ball, depicts the inevitability of artistic failure.
A ball bounces in twenty-four different ways – each slightly different; none are the “best” bounce.
As one views through the set, increasingly-complex graphic elements – such as animated shadows and glares – are gradually phased-into the animations.
So, on the one hand, one views change.
(Each bounce is a “better” representation of a ball bounce).
However, on the other hand, one also views non-change.
(None of the bounces – no matter how graphically complicated – are “the” bounce.)
An actor (represented here by a red ball) enters frame-left, bounces, and, then, leaves frame-right (they are born, they act, and, then, they die) in-and-out-and-back-again forever.
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