Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real.
The video opens with the camera meandering through fields of bright lights and skyscrapers before circling around Jianbo rendered in 3D statue form. Small details like raindrops beading off his figure add to Dan's detailed world-building. Dan says: "There's real thought behind each vignette and all of it relates in some way to his experience of different kinds of honour, whether sometimes that's misplaced or not." Dan's work in bringing metaphors to stretch the track's narrative into visuality is direct a result of the medium.