The Horizon Plays Itself Back Into Being

Rayner utilizes labour-intensive, hand-drawn stop-motion animations, utilising the methodology of animating to construct fictional narratives to approximate a sense of reality. The works move tonally towards soft-core science fiction, in pursuit of a state of weirdness: a disconnection of understanding coupled with stabilising scenarios, the artist attempts to visually preview scenarios in order to do the future self a ‘solid’ by predicting obstacles and self-fulfilling cycles. The work looks through an un-reality to something that is close to an anxiousness about the future.