I think of these pieces as video meditations. They are like moving stills. By keeping the camera position fixed, the motion of the subject is highlighted: the dancing of flames, the rushing of water, swimming ducks and the rippling surface of a pond. By editing without concern for beginning or end, then looping the videos, I isolate the moving images from a sense of time as progression and place them in a perpetual now. Not all of the videos have audio. Instead, one track may accompany multiple videos. For instance, the crashing sound of water falling in The way it is is the way it will be might fill the exhibition space where Immemorial and Liminal are also looping. As the video is scalable and the audio reconfigurable, different iterations are possible. The combinations reveal the beauty and mystery of the natural world. They have the power to mesmerize, to remove the viewer from individual consciousness and envelope them within the scale of nature and its processes.
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Video, 0:30, looped indefinitely, 2024
This video is part of a series of what I call video meditations—short, looping videos that create space for reflection. It speaks to a feeling of inescapable determinism. In the video a stream reverses course seeming to contradict the title. However, this is merely artifice achieved in editing, an impossibility in lived experience.
Video, 0:35, looped indefinitely, 2023
In this video meditation, I heighten the mesmerizing quality of fire by giving symmetry to its frantic motion. The video is hypnotic. It taps into the elemental and primordial.
Video excerpt, 0:49, full duration: 2:56, looped indefinitely, 2023
In this video meditation, I employ the rippling surface of water to entrance the viewer. Ducks swim in and out of the frame momentarily, introducing new patterns on the surface. The mood is dreamy yet the silvery reflected light obscures a dim world of activity beneath, hidden from the viewer’s sight.
Video, 1:27, 2019
Threshold contemplates the blurring of life and death, suggesting a sublime and daunting culmination of all energy and matter.
Video, 2:31, excerpt: 1:09, 2019
Akin is a meditation on the ambiguous nature of interspecies difference. Humans and cats are featured side by side. Dilating pupils, eye movements, and bellies rising and falling with each breath suggest intimate similarities, yet there are undeniable differences. Our pets, particularly mammals, evoke this uncanny borderland between sameness and difference.
Video excerpt
Video, 0:49, 2019
This video betrays a preoccupation with non-human experience, a recognition of sameness and difference, areas of overlap and instances of stark and utter disparity.
