Watts with Eggs (1967)

By 1967 Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece Watts with EGGS in which she animates his chromecasted Box of Eggs The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs of course then through single framing pixilates a mans hand arranging eggs in different patterns The hands those of John Hawkins fill the box back up with eggs Next the eggs do the same routine but more magically more serenely without the assistance of the hands Menken also introduces a string and a feather duster into animated action so that the eggs one by one seem to be coming directly out of the duster objects infect objects By the end the eggs are magically back in their box Melissa Ragona