“Two Ways Down,” an animated exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, displays shadows and refracted projections that create human-animal hybrids and nature.

On display through March 29, “Two Ways Down” intertwines human and animal movement, bringing the two animated worlds together. Created by filmmaker and performance artist Laura Heit, the mixture of shadows, drawings and animations were inspired by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”

 On Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., Heit will speak about the process of crafting her installation and show short animations at the Schnitzer Cinema series on Experimental Media.

“I began drawing animated loops of human animal hybrids, or micro-bodies, on stacks of blank index cards,” says Heit in her artist statement.

The Regional Arts and Culture Council grant partially funded Heit’s exhibit. Portland-based, Heit is an experimental filmmaker and performance artist who has been making puppet shows, performance work and animated films for more than 15 years.

Heit’s experimental puppet films and animations have been featured at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the London International Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art.

―By Corinne Boyer, Public Affairs Communications intern