Sedimenting, 2011
HD Video
11’58”
Featuring Erin Nixon
[* * *] carries the home around as an extension of the body, creating a temporal habitat that serves a specific function. Collecting grapefruit skins and tiny pebbles, [* * *] systematically arranges objects in the fashion that a bower bird prepares a nest. Each object is important.
Addressing themes of nature, collection/archive, ideas of home, habitation and infestation, I intend to create an abstract narrative that induces a corporeal viewing experience. The use of hand-held camera techniques and extreme close-ups serves to create a narrative that withholds key elements of the character’s rituals. The movement and composition suggest a subjective point of view.
By withholding an image that establishes time and space, the viewer is left with a fractured picture that can only be repaired by their own imagination. This obscurity is heightened by the lack of a traditional narrative. There is no beginning, middle, or end to the video.
Addressing themes of nature, collection/archive, ideas of home, habitation and infestation, I intend to create an abstract narrative that induces a corporeal viewing experience. The use of hand-held camera techniques and extreme close-ups serves to create a narrative that withholds key elements of the character’s rituals. The movement and composition suggest a subjective point of view.
By withholding an image that establishes time and space, the viewer is left with a fractured picture that can only be repaired by their own imagination. This obscurity is heightened by the lack of a traditional narrative. There is no beginning, middle, or end to the video.
Video Stills:
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