"Which Is To Say is an immersive ten channel video installation
at the Laguna Art Museum.
The installation seeks to involve the friction and fluidity between
familiar polarities – human and animal, sacred and secular, culture and nature,
gravity and lightness. Shot at locations throughout the United States and in India,
the work brushes apparently disparate things against each other, creating numerous
relationships and juxtapositions and this multiple interpretations and readings.
Each projection is between one and a half and two hours (running
on a continuous loop) and consists of sequenced, static durational shots ranging
in length form approximately three to sixty minutes. These long shots are sometimes
interjected with very quick cuts to another scene. Using variations in pace and
rhythm, the installation aims to create a contemplative space in which the viewer’s
experience of time both collapses and extends. The projections are sequenced and
spaced so as to encourage unexpected connections (for example, birds from one appearing
to fly in another). For the most part the work is silent, however (very bref) sound
is used periodically to interrupt the space and to add another layer of potential
meaning to the piece.
At the same time as each projection is part of the larger installation,
each is conceived as autonomous piece that might also be thought of as a painting,
in part because of the durational quality, lushness and colour, but also because
in the relationships with specific artists and genres, The views of rooftops in
Pushkar, India for example, functions very much like na Indian miniature painting;
the smoke from a wildfire in Los Angeles relates to abstract painting, and some
of the water pieces refer to Monet, Rothko and Richter."
Interesting focus on various interpretations. I’m interested
in the uniqueness of the individual mind and how ones associations and experiences
can vastly alter the perception of something.
- Another example of various ways to project images.
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