Dissolution of Order, 2014
three-channel synchronized video triptych displayed on three 55" LED flat panel displays, 15 minute loop
102" x 50"
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
VIDEO
three-channel synchronized video triptych displayed on three 55" LED flat panel displays, 15 minute loop
102" x 50"
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
VIDEO
Dissolution of Order
17’
This three-channel synchronized video triptych is the second in a series begun in 2012 with Interval Two. Viewed on three vertically mounted 55” LED flat screen panels, the silent triptych slowly unfolds: seven discrete three-channel video tableaux gradually morph into each other in a continuous loop.
In the service of describing liminal- or between- states, I am, in this work, attempting visual manifestations of dissolution occurring simultaneously within both the established framework of the social order and the supporting (collapsing) environment- a ‘mutual arising’ of discontinuation.
Particularly poignant for me is this quote from Joseph Campbell:
“For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work- or, if working, produce deviant effects- there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for ‘meaning’.”
The imagery encourages a contemplative response without a discernable narrative thread or devices linking it to traditional forms of cinema and storytelling.
17’
This three-channel synchronized video triptych is the second in a series begun in 2012 with Interval Two. Viewed on three vertically mounted 55” LED flat screen panels, the silent triptych slowly unfolds: seven discrete three-channel video tableaux gradually morph into each other in a continuous loop.
In the service of describing liminal- or between- states, I am, in this work, attempting visual manifestations of dissolution occurring simultaneously within both the established framework of the social order and the supporting (collapsing) environment- a ‘mutual arising’ of discontinuation.
Particularly poignant for me is this quote from Joseph Campbell:
“For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work- or, if working, produce deviant effects- there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for ‘meaning’.”
The imagery encourages a contemplative response without a discernable narrative thread or devices linking it to traditional forms of cinema and storytelling.