little deaths
These videos are about the materiality of the subject and the unfolding of phenomena over time. Events take place in which matter is altered by a variety of imposed but “natural” causes: breath, condensation, evaporation, fire, or water. These events draw attention to the fragility of subject and object, suggesting both deterioration and progress. As a whole, the work is a vanitas: a study doomed by time and progress, connoting the embrace of physical experience but also with the awareness of its inevitable loss. To act upon something, only to watch its disruption or eventual destruction, can suggest both pathos and beauty. To me, it is intensely human. Pointing to the transitory nature of life, the exhibition space is likened to a body, as it becomes a space in flux and a chamber of the body’s noises—of breath, of murmurs, of silence.