Video Still Accompaniment
This image represents a video still of a looping video installation. The audio and video installation involves sound and sight in order to create a space where the viewer can reach a contemplative place. The visual response to the audio breath comes from contemplation of spiritual writings concerning the breath of life. Many believe that it is the breath that imbues life and holds life. By formalizing the gesture in a simple activation of the forms, it becomes the desire of the artist to breath life into the art.
In my research this semester I have been working on stretching my interests into a questioning of my own motives for the work. I have been looking at my interest in awe and mystery and the way that they can be used as a mode to discover truth. It may not be a discovery of truth, but more of a search for the reasons for seeking truth. The constant distillation of ideas through a more intuitive, and less planned, method has made me try and move away from the stillness that existed in the encased paintings I was making. The use of video and the beginnings of pouring outside of a mold have helped to move my work in that type of direction. I am drawn to the dialogue that can come from how the encased paintings, the pours and the videos relate to one another, and the space between them.