Mehdi Rooz

Journal

February 10, 2024 · 8 min read

On Stillness and the Image

Tarkovsky once said that cinema is sculpting in time. What, then, is a 3D render? A sculpture of frozen light — stillness masquerading as presence.

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November 20, 2023 · 12 min read

Heidegger and the Digital Body

Being-in-the-world means always already being in a body. The clay figure in my work is not metaphor — it is the weight of Dasein made visible.

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August 5, 2023 · 6 min read

The Loneliness of Rendering

Every artist works alone. But 3D rendering adds another layer — hours watching a machine slowly describe light, pixel by pixel, in silence.

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