Honey Honeywilson | Neon Sonic

Artist Statement

Neon Sonic is a digitally hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation that explores the themes of time passing and history being forgotten. The animation was made over the span of 3 months along with its unique soundscape that was made to sync with the coloured neon lines passing through the tunnel. Each one of the neon lines represents a sound, noise or rhythm that is in the music if you listen carefully enough. As the lines move through the tunnel towards the void circle they disappear apart from the two that stay, these represent how easily history can be forgotten or can be rewritten. The lines also show how fast time passes, the small quick lines can be interpreted as moments of someone's life or as a timeline of history just as one line appears it disappears being replaced with a new era, decade and/or century continuing the cycle. I designed this video to be able to be looped so it could go on for hours because I wanted to show just how long history can be. 

Artist Bio

Honey Honeywilson is an Australian interdisciplinary artist based in Melbourne currently in her second year of studying at RMIT art school. Her art practice spans across abstract colour field paintings, the recreation of historical garments, photography and video works. Influenced by historical fashion, events, and the passing of time, Honey’s art explores the past and present, focusing on themes of timing moving onwards and the past being forgotten or remade. Her work investigates history - how it is perceived, reinterpreted, and lost. Honeywilson’s photography captures the quiet movements of life that are often overlooked and the beauty found within the stillness turning them into a cinematic aesthetic photo series that reflects on her childhood of growing up watching films that shaped how she perceived the world, learning to appreciate the quiet moments just as much as the busy and big events. 

Through her range of mediums, Honeywilson invites the viewer to question how easily history can be rewritten and forgotten, wanting them to think about how they observe the world and their own memories.