Sifting Motion is a site specfic 3 channel video installation and a series of photographic video stills.
As the viewer moves from one screen to the other alternative time signatures are articulated within the frame. A locked off shot of a skyline at dusk sitting low on the horizon, clouds changing colour moving from left to right is broken by a ricocheting form of a dog
flying from outside of the frame and disappearing the same way disrupting the flow.
Videos shot over the last 10 years contain an accidental element. A spot of light on the wall reflects the sun going down outside and unexpectedly becomes a camera obscura by light shining through a pinhole of a venetian blind. The image depicts a flock of birds as shadows motioning through the light.
Another video was aimed to catching the morning light through glass objects (artist Elaine Miles) out of frame. As the backdrop of paper collapsed the camera kept rolling and a cat unwittingly enters half his body on screen - an ambiguous form.
As within dance disciplines, meaning is often created by contrasting speeds - in the same way I have aimed to form a simultaneous choreography of motion to reflect upon how time is experienced and to engage the viewer's physical trajectory in the gallery.
Referencing painting aesthetics the projections are irregular shapes, not the usual 16:9 or 4:3 ratio but rather sized relative to the architecture of the gallery and the passage of the viewer. The projection sits on a glossy enamel painted surface that reflects rather than absorbs light and colour, treating them as painterly elements within the work. |
