The Image of The Fox is a film that travels through the mind of the film maker, following self doubt visualized as a mysterious, dark, and viscous kind of material that seems to have a mind of its own as it takes the shape of various thoughts and anxieties.

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This film started as a stream of consciousness exercise that conveyed my anxiety, depression, isolation, creative frustration and all sorts of doubts about myself I had during the pandemic. I started to come up with still life scenes in my head to illustrate the emotions. As I began creating these scenes in 3D, I started to feel another level of doubt. What I was making was not exactly how I envisioned it. It didn't perfectly convey the emotion I wanted it to. I was just settling for "good enough" because I lacked the talent to properly execute on my intention. I needed to start over or just give up and do something else. I couldn't help but have these thoughts of self doubt. I couldn't work at all without them creeping their way into my head. It felt like I didn't have control over my own mind. So instead of trying to ignore the doubt in my head, I focused on it instead. I wanted to understand the nature of this insecurity and visually define it. I found it to be elusive and have a mind of its own. It was clever and was definitely working against me. So I decided to represent self doubt as a fox but also as an ambiguous fluid like material that can shape shift into whatever form it wants. It becomes the connection between all of the scenes. It is the unconscious flowing of thoughts and feelings. It is the fluid way in which thoughts form in my brain before I even notice, and then vanish. I wanted to visualize that kind of cerebral procession and show it almost as a force of nature leading the viewer from scene to scene in very much the same way that my mind leads me around from thought to thought.