Walter Watson is a film I wrote and directed that follows a character navigating two parallel perceptual states: one grounded in everyday experience and the other surreal and symbolic. The film moves fluidly between these conditions, using atmosphere, visual metaphor, and spatial composition to reflect shifts in memory, emotion, and interior awareness.

A central figure within the film is a slug like creature that appears during moments of psychological tension, echoing fragments of speech and thought. Designed and animated within the film’s visual effects pipeline, the creature functions as both narrative presence and visual disruption, destabilizing the boundary between the two realities.

Following the film’s completion, the creature was extracted from its cinematic context and re presented as a looping gallery installation. Removed from dialogue and narrative progression, it becomes an object of sustained observation. Through repetition and duration, viewers engage with its surface, motion, and digital texture independent of story.

This shift from film to installation reframes the animated character as a self contained visual system. By isolating the creature from narrative structure, the work examines how meaning changes through context, how digital forms operate differently within cinematic and exhibition spaces, and how repetition and visibility shape perception.