Hey! I'm Sivan 👋 Thanks for taking a look at this one — here's the story behind it.

I went into The Met's archive expecting to land on something sculptural, and instead got stopped cold by a landscape. I picked this one for the color. Church painted the whole climate range of the Andes in a single frame — tropical green at the bottom, snow at the top — and none of it looks invented. The greens, the haze, the light coming through the falls: it's all natural color, mixed the way weather actually mixes it. That palette became my entire brief.

Then I found the detail that unlocked it. When the painting was first shown in 1859, Church framed it like a window and handed people opera glasses so they'd lean in and study the leaves. That's what pushed me past a still image. If the painting was always meant to be looked into, I wanted to move through it.

So I made the landscape wearable. The valley becomes the dress she's running in — the falls in the pleats, the canopy in the hem, the snowline at the shoulder — and I cut it as an action sequence so the color has to keep up with real motion. At the end she stops, and the dress unravels back into the canvas. She dissolves into Heart of the Andes, and you're looking at Church's painting again, exactly as he left it.

Built entirely on the FLORA canvas. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it 🌿