CRYSTALLIZATION 2017

LA STARTUP FAIR

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Bubbling liquids, moving light, and studies of water, trees, and people help me ask: How are we embodied? How do we activate our lives? How can we be more present in our physical world? How can we be more connected with ourselves and others? Studies show physical activity positively affects brain cognition. Some of my favorite activities are drawing, walking, and cooking. I create videos to capture this process and the power of movement and connection. I bottle it up for study.

I house my video sculptures in mason jars containing water. I use water as a lens like a kid with a magnifying glass, pulling things - in this case, transparent layers of video imagery - apart to observe. I choose to work with liquids – for their transparency and because they’re too slippery for me to fully control. The glass mason jars preserve precious memories, life’s seminal moments, and challenges to be used when someone needs to call on them - my grandmother’s cooking, inspirations from Maya Angelou, remnants from wildfires. I play with veils of transparency to speak to the act of perception and sight (vision), the ability to see in and to discover.

The physical and virtual intersections, matter, and media hold somatic resonance. Virtual refers to media but also thought, imagination, perception, psyche, and spirit. In our ever more virtual and disconnected existences, my video sculptures, projection machines, installations, and prints on metal comment on the complexity of what it is to be in a body and to be pulled into virtual realms.