Manifold, 2018 (work-in-progress)
four-channel synchronized video triptych displayed on four 55" OLED 4K flat panel displays, 30 minute loop
90" x 50"
accepted to Currents International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM in June, 2018
four-channel synchronized video triptych displayed on four 55" OLED 4K flat panel displays, 30 minute loop
90" x 50"
accepted to Currents International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM in June, 2018
The Pacific Northwest rural landscape is the one I grew up in and generally regarded with a measure of melancholy for both its attractive and unattractive qualities. Manifold is an experimental, synchronized 4-channel media work experienced on four large OLED 4k flat screen monitors. Constructed almost exclusively from composited and collaged photos taken from a moving train (more than two thousand originals were shot during several trips between Seattle, Washington and the Willamette Valley in Oregon), Manifold establishes a dreamlike and liminal territory of Northwest landscape where stark industrial, rural and urban tableaux are revealed in alternating succession. The work serves as a meditation on, and critique of, a reckless, fossil-fueled culture now under a renewed threat of nuclear annihilation.
