APSIS (( ABSENCE : 2024
Nae man can tether time or tide
— Robert Burns //
Memory fades, must be remembered.
Perishing be?
— Walter De La Mare
All art arises out of a sense of personal urgency (the essence of being). It is an embodiment of memory and therefore disembodiment of time. Art, at its most loquacious, evokes something of the ineffable, the inaudible, the unseen.
— Meghan Ferrill
APSIS (( ABSENCE represents the continuation of efforts to visualize and express themes of time, loss, metaphysical borders, and the fragility of memory. Within the installation, a fading triptych portrait is combined with looping, projected videos of ocean tides and lunar phases.
The waxing and waning lunar orb denotes the passage of time and the impermanence of memory. Luminous and dense, the moon is a blank projection screen for imaginings, and lost echoes of inner worlds and outer space, summoning the infinite and the intimate. Where elusive memories, reminiscent of the tide’s current, ebb and flow until time erodes each remembrance, like sand beneath the force of a wave.
APSIS (( ABSENCE is dedicated to my sister, Robin…an earthbound space explorer…she travels the universe in her dreams.
APSIS (( ABSENCE : Exhibit Diagram + Components
LIGHT EXPERIMENTS : 01/03 : 2023
This century belongs to light. Fiat Lux!
— Lazlo Maholy-Nagy
Tinted acrylic disks, embedded in sand-blasted glass illuminated with LED light discs.
CALLIEX2 : 2022
Diptych portrait // printed acrylic layer, with multiple laser-cut sheets of geometric patterns placed inside custom matte plexiglass boxes.
FILM LEADER REMIX : 2022
FILM LEADER REMIX is an interactive program designed by S8, inspired by Kuleshov's constructivist experiments; new associations and meanings are formed by the temporal relationship of one image to another.
The application encourages the user to create abstract, visual configurations by dragging and dropping tiny Quicktime movies from a collection of digital film leader clips. A video of this interactive process is provided below.
In the video above, film clips are displayed on three monitors, rendering a large-scale projection of abstract compilations.
FILM LEADER REMIX : The video (above) is a screen capture of the program’s interface and a user arranging the clips to form abstract assemblages.
CIRCLEX3 : 2022
Hypnotic high-definition circle patterns displayed on three 15” square video monitors, an homage to Duchamp’s Anémic Cinema.