Manifold, 2018
four-channel synchronized video triptych displayed on four 55" QLED 4K flat panel displays, 27 minute loop
90" x 50"
Currents International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
four-channel synchronized video triptych displayed on four 55" QLED 4K flat panel displays, 27 minute loop
90" x 50"
Currents International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
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 documents a dreamlike and liminal territory of Northwest landscape where stark industrial, rural and urban tableaux are revealed in alternating succession. The work explores feelings resulting from the cult of private ownership and its effects on ecological and spiritual deterioration as the region grows and becomes more developed, and serves as a meditation on and critique of a reckless, fossil-fueled culture now under a renewed threat of nuclear annihilation.