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SACRAMENT, CONVERSION, ETC., 2001
watercolor
on wall with video projection
(2 channel installation)
This
installation
was an investigation into aspects of visual perception.
By juxtaposing abstraction with figuration, and painting
with digital video, my intent was to evoke a heightened
quality of attention to life. Moments, such as candles
melting, a heart beating, and a child skipping invite
the viewer to reflection by their visual associations,
and also through the sensation of the simultaneous
compression and expansion of time.
Sacrament,
Conversion, etc. was an installation from which the
experience of creating it, as well as the observations
I made on how people perceived and interacted with
the space and the work, posed for me new questions
and ideas about the nature of painting, video, and
installation based work. A specific observation I
made was that the viewer experienced a complete dislocation
of where the image lies. They would walk in and start
touching the walls, wondering if screens were embedded
in the walls, if light and the images emanated outward,
and / or if the surface of the walls were three-dimensional.
Featured
at:
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
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