forest
Video, Print30 minute duration
Inspiration & Concept: The Forest series is an immersive collaboration between the natural world and digital chaos. The work is inspired by the simple act of walking through the woods, now transformed into an ephemeral and contorted non-linear space. The viewer is meant to enter the video piece at any time, becoming an observer amid calm and jarring visuals and audio.
Process & Technique: This digitally manipulated piece was created using a precise and challenging process of digital manipulation. An extended thirty minute video of a forest walk serves as a challenge to manually corrupt the video and audio together. The difficulty in controlling the breakdown without completely destroying the source material is comparative to balancing the moments of a calm continuous narrative, being interjected with jarring and unsettling glitched sequences. The artist's capability in this medium requires deliberate control within a chaotic process.
Message & Meaning: nature vs. noise, witnessing change, delight vs. alarm, journey's peace and chaos
celebration
Video, PrintDisplayed at Parallel Frontiers, 2015
Inspiration & Concept: This series is a study in amplifying moments of simple human expression. The inspiration was to take a fleeting gesture from randomly chosen video content, and extrapolate its motion and energy. It brings to focus the force of motion and variety of effects and changes on video due to various actions.
Process & Technique: This process of work is high risk and highly selective. This process repeats the latent energy within selected frames, stretching a split-second action across the spread of a canvas. The resulting glitched imagery is a vibratory echo of the original movement, sometimes evocative, humorous, or chilling. Celebration is the altering of gestures into a powerful, abstract expression of motion.
Message & Meaning: freedom of expression, value in the abstract, preserved energy, power within action
goodbye friend
Video, PrintInspiration & Concept: This series is a deeper exploration of human connections and the disintegration of memory. It was conceived as an intimate, collaborative experiment with a dozen friends. The core idea was to capture a moment of stillness, knowing that the resulting content would be a visual extrapolation and intentional metaphor for personal detachment and the erosion of relationships over time.
Process & Technique: The process began with the subject's video portrait, where each sits still for a minute and a half. The file is then intentionally corrupted using changes in movement within the video. This distortion amplifies the subjects' slightest movements – subtle gestures become catalysts for a complete and beautiful visual breakdown, turning a static portrait into an broken or flowing cascade of color and form.
Message & Meaning: emotional detachment, fading of memories, inevitable loss
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