The fields, draft 2 is a flicker film that compresses a day into the blooming and withdrawal of a field.

The film couples two cycles that run in parallel across 11 minutes and 32 seconds.

The visual track is a diurnal arc: flowers emerge and populate the fields as the sun rises and crests overhead, and the flowers thin out and disappear as the sun sets.

The flowers become an index of the day’s passing, blooming and retreating in time with the sun rather than persisting as static images.

The score is a found-audio soundscape of children playing tag, adults chatting and laughing, crickets, birdsong, windchimes. The field is a social space that progresses towards everyone moving to the creek, giving the sound its own narrative shape underneath the visual one — a day’s gathering and dispersal.

The flicker form holds the cycles in tension: the day is assembled from intermittence, and presence and disappearance are a part of the argument.