The Starling Drawings from Adam Chapman.

Ephemeral, euphoric moments lie at the heart of video artist Adam Chapman’s work. Fleeting frames that flash briefly into focus, revealing beauty in the mechanics of a mysterious world. Combining contemporary tools of his own design with the millennia-old tradition of mark-making, his Starling Drawings explore “a system wherein rules govern discrete, abstract elements that build a greater representational form.”

Every tiny, grey speck in his Starling series represents an actual bird in flight, and the airborne murmurations reform on paper, capturing the dynamically fluid motion in two dimensions.