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WONDER: LOOKING THROUGH LENSES 2016

SF STARTUP ARTFARE

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In my art practice, as in my home, I love to mix high and low tech. To create a meeting of virtual and physical space, I place video screens behind mason jars filled with water. The placement of the image behind water acts as a lens. As you walk around the sculpture the three-dimensionality of the bottle, water, and image lends an additional sense of movement and wonder. The bottles store precious memories, life’s seminal moments and challenges to be used when someone needs to call on them.

My current series of video sculptures housed in these bottles contain both landscapes and figurative imagery. The landscapes depict natural disasters that have touched me recently. This year hurricane Harvey unsettled my childhood state of Texas followed by the fires of Northern California ravishing many communities an hour’s drive from my current home. I want to engage people who might have had their sense of home disrupted/destroyed. Pulling in stories and images from them and put them inside my video sculpture system. Maybe even having people in the gallery able to change and insert images they want to be held for others to experience.

People also populate the video sculptures I am currently making. I have pulled many of these figures from my childhood as I rediscovered super eight footage at my mother’s house. These films store many of the good memories of play, joy, and connection that are fleeting from my own memory banks.

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