Triad 2009

Artist Statement

In a dark space video is light and light draws the human eye in like insects. It is a bit of science fiction and fantasy to accept an animated surface as a part of a permanent structure, as if we could slice through the skin of the physical world to expose an alternate world underneath. With this intention, I remove video from the screen and project it like a living, breathing mural on a wall, into a glass orb as a god, or into a hole in the floor leading to another universe. There is a sense of magic I wish for in the real world. Fundamental physical motions such as breathing, blinking, flowers opening and closing, the sun rising and setting, my heart beating – these cyclical processes inspire my animations. The body and the landscape get mixed up in my mind. The French painter Claude Lorrain spent mornings in a foggy field looking to see how the landscape changed as the sun moved, watching the sun filter through the atmosphere. I am looking to create a similar feeling with video installation, to place viewers in sight of a window to an idealized moment, a dreamscape where love and nature conquers all. Triad is a color organ. Each of three pyramids emits a pure tone and color. When all three pyramids turn on in unison they form a chord, a major triad. The code is as follows: C violet, D blue, E green, F yellow G orange, A red, B magenta. The pyramids will send their message to outer space from the basement of the Mattress Factory, in hopes of making the mothership connection.