marfa
Video, PrintDisplayed at the New Art Center, 2016
Inspiration & Concept: This piece focuses on memory and environment; it explores the inevitable process of decay that affects both physical landscapes and the memories we hold of them. The process takes the view of a simple location and deliberately subjects it to the forces of slipped time and manual corruption.
Process & Technique: The process is a gradual controlled deterioration of both visual and audio tracks. As the video of the landscape slowly changes, the accompanying audio of Freddy Cannon's "Deep in the Heart of Texas" simultaneously becomes increasingly distorted and garbled. The piece is another journey into destruction, with the artist's hand composing the gradual breakdown of the file.
Message & Meaning: memory vs. nostalgia, cherished perceptions, lost in reality, beauty in corruption