{ Rob Carter }

I'll let the artist explain his work: “Stone On Stone” is a stop-motion video animation that uses the architectural language of High Gothic and Modernism to invent a contradictory history of their evolvement. The theme starts and finishes with the vast and unfinished Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC. It is contrasted with Le Corbusier’s La Tourette monastery in France, competed in 1960. The video uses this anomalous but single-minded architectural vision as the foundation for a new emergence of Gothic religious expression, resulting in a complete and unified fantasy cathedral – akin to the building that the Church of Saint John might have aspired to be. Unfortunately this is just a clip from the video that, in its entirety, is actually about 8 minutes long (clip runs from the 3^rd to 6^th minute). But despite that fact (and even if you - like me - aren't exactly read-up on your architectural history), it's still a pretty amazing video that goes about "constructing" its narrative in a really interesting way (somewhat similar to Monty Python-era British animation).

Stone on Stone [CLIP] from Rob Carter on Vimeo.