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Movie is a cube composed of an accumulation of hundreds of photographs from magazines and newspapers from the time which were each individually coated in clear polyester resin and embedded on top of each other to create a solid polyester form offering the possibility of a different future. The laminate images are arranged within the cube facing the topside indicated by an inscribed triangle, which also designates the image base, presenting the possibility that it may be sanded down from the top in a flat plane while being intermittently photographed in stop-motion onto motion picture film, thereby destroying the cube while transforming it into a projectable moving image. The clippings are not absolutely flat level planes; some have curled edges and surface swells, yet the flat level sanding plane advances regularly through the volume. The movie that will emerge if the cube were to be so ritually transformed will reveal the movement of the edges within; upward curls moving inward, downward curls moving outward, while the swells open to various images flashing past, seemingly celebrating its change of form. One of the more interesting things to me about it is the question of whether it may ever undergo this change. For now, my description of it, the invisibles, the uncertainties, its indeterminate existence as a solid, and the potential of another future remain. Of course also what is hidden may never be revealed.