My latest work incorporates moving images, visual effects, and sound, drawing imagery from nature: the movement of clouds, water, plants, and animals. I combine and edit my own video recordings to elicit both pathos and awe, using tweaked native audio to heighten the visual experience. I often keep the camera still to emphasize the subject's intrinsic movement. As a result, the pieces feel less like conventional films and more like “moving stills.” By disregarding traditional narrative structures—beginning, middle, and end—I remove the subjects from an ordinary sense of time as progression, resulting in works that are meditative in nature. While these videos can stand alone as independent pieces, many are intended for incorporation into immersive video installations.
Ultimately, I wish to evoke in the viewer the same tenderness and awe I feel towards the world when witnessing the quiver of a plant in the wind, an egg fallen from its nest, the slow blink of an eye, or the lick of a flame. I find being alive and conscious profoundly weird and precious, and I use my work to point to the things that marvel me, inviting others to join in that wonder. Recurring themes in the work include non-human experience, anxiety surrounding a collapsing natural world, impermanence, and transmutation.
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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.
