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Sietsema takes as inspiration the ethnographic objects that he has collected from various locations, including Africa, Indo-Asia, and the South Pacific region of Oceania. He reimagines these objects through drawings and handcrafted sculptures, then captures the sculptures on 16mm film; the results are flickering, mostly black-and-white moving images that slip between abstract and figurative representation. The drawings are both visually engaging and materially compelling; the film, intimate and poetic.