[excerpt] 2009 / 5:00
Upper NY Harbor: Acoustic Imaging I (Installation View) 2009
[Audio and Video Installation for Three Channel Video Projection or Three Segments on One Monitor]
Confluence (and Drift) [excerpt 1] 2007 / 5:09
Confluence (and Drift) [excerpt 2] 2008 / 8:22
Snohole 2005 / 5:58
2008 [Mutli Channel Multi Media Installation]
Intractable Journey follows along the periphery of the Potomac, Hudson and Niagara Rivers; it stops along social, material and virtual paths, at convergences and conflicts. Civil and Revolutionary events along the rivers, as well as the labor and methods of living along the banks are explored, historically and contemporarilly. The installation presents an unlikely set of views along the way from ants and sweeteners, horses and cars, trains and guns to any number of materials and means along the rivers, in often unavoidable circumstances and states.
The journey unfolds beginning with video and sound captured in found situations, and then flows from inactive to interactive materials to completely fabricated or synthesized events.
In Firmament
(a Journal of the Weather)
2006 - Present [Mutli Channel Multi Media Installation]
Firmament is many things. In the old testament and in other tales from the ancient past, it was an expansion of the heavens, a hammered-out bowl or container
of the celestial, an ocean like ceiling, a vaulted body of atmospheric water, and in various states often facing the earth as a dome. As in Expedition, moving views of physicality by way of moisture and atmospheric conditions are visualized using filters and light. In this way the daily weather has been chronicled since 2006. As well, audio field recordings often taken at the same time and weather related or atmospheric data make up the sound portion of the multi-channel installation.
2007 [Single Channel Audio and Video]
Summer in the American South, an unbearably humid place; the horizon line is often cloaked by ivy engulfed trees. On one especially humid day, as a rain storm was nearing its end, I looked out of the window and there was a view where light hung and time suspended, both amorphous in the water soaked air. Moments appeared dithered - between the jungle-like thickness and the light broken into vaporous particles - that striking view of time and space was further exposed through the video lens.
Expedition looks at traveling into strange views of physicality, as I continued to find it in, or look for it, in southern masses of vegetation and vaporous air.