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test for video object.
still editing video, most likely will result in multi-screen.

Statement for "Self Portrait in Snow Canyon"

The film is a portrait of the self split in two. There is potentially a series of symbolic inversions the duality could represent : real/ imaginary, conscious/ unconscious, mind/heart, a reflective twinning, an oscillation between the two. A double self portrait insinuates ironic self awareness like Baudelaire’s dédoublement.

The two women are connected by a cord and move closer and closer together throughout the film’s duration; there is a symmetry between them. The situation borrows from theory of quantum reality, where they are inextricably connected into some indivisible whole, when one does something the other is affected simultaneously.

The sound conveys, or reiterates, the internal aspect and the desert landscape presents its own trajectory and historical symbolism. Historically, the desert is featured predominantly in spiritual mysticism, signifying the difficult situation of the people; with this interpretation the women’s actions appear ritualistic. And yet this type of landscape has strong ties to the cinematic like the American Western. I consider it to signify the landscape of the mind; that these dance like gestures are being performed by the two women in a way that is trying to understand something, remember maybe, perhaps that inextricable connection itself.

View the film http://www.vimeo.com/4411818

Infilitrate

Infiltrate, 2009, mixed media including 35mm colour slide and diascopic viewmaster plus sound, 134 H x 58.5 D x 55 W cm approx

Hear the sound from Infiltrate

There is a continuous stream coming out of my mouth, as I lean over, hands grasping on to the ledge of the kitchen sink. It’s not vomit. I thought at first it was water but its texture, although fluid, is not entirely liquid. I can feel with my lips this outer glazing – a membrane - metallic in places, encasing a tunnel that protrudes in to the drain of the sink. I can do nothing but be this way. I have never experienced the urgency to speak so great until now.  A worm hole has emerged. When I look down the spherical mass appears to be flowing or rotating and I wonder if some part of me will travel through this tunnel from an intra-universe and if I will transcend beyond the kitchen drain, or local sewage tank. I can’t loosen my grip from the sink’s edge, I have to hold on, if I want to go on, I will have to find a way without using my hands to extract this thing from the depths of me; I can do nothing but be this way.

Fault Line at the Nunnery, London 17 June -18 July 09

Let Fall, 2009, screenprint of human hair on 15meters of paper and table

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Interpretations to Here from erin newell bird on Vimeo.

work in progress show -rca