artist statement

Blue Screen Project seeks to explore the structure of narrative. The piece surveys memory, perceptions, knowledge and the relationship between three characters by visualizing what has happened, what is happening and what will happen, simultaneously. Characters examine their history, which may be their own emotional projection of what will happen, in simultaneous moments with what is occurring to them on another screen. Scenes and relationships are repeated within an ever-changing context.

The piece is a three-channel video installation designed as an immersive experience. Three large video screens are placed in a gallery setting, situated so the viewers can walk in and among the screens. The screens are positioned so that a viewer can only see two of the full screens at once, and a part of the third screen. Images projected on the fronts of the screens are also projected in sync on the backs of each screen. 

Like the viewer, the physical structure of the installation allows the characters to observe their own lives. They can stand outside the experience, observing their own behavior and the behavior of others. Time is abstracted and fluid. 

Projects

9 Screen is a video installation that explores confinement and perspective in relationship to the projected images, as well as to the viewer’s immersive physical experience. I want people to feel surrounded and confined themselves, as events transpire simultaneously, in real time, all around them, but all from different points of view. We are all trying to break out of or into something. 

The piece is designed to be projected on three walls of three rooms located adjacent to one another. By standing in the middle of each room, the viewer is at the nodal point of that specific room’s three-camera perspective. Each scene was shot with three synced cameras from the specific architectural nodal point of each scene.