Clay Painting

Clay painting 7ft x 5.5 ft with light projected through 

WIth blue light projected through

She confessed, "It is those moments that we live for"

When you communicate with another person you each have your own experience of that situation. Due to disparities in language and perception between people you can never quite fully understand what they are trying to say, explain, or express, especially when it comes to abstract words. So much of what the other person is trying to communicate is lost with your translation of it. Though within communication there are those times when you have this unspeakable mutual connection, and there is this "spiritual communion". They are those transient moments that we live for and seek to find.

This piece employs two perspectives of a situation. This situation was a lighted glass fish tank of water propped onto a bass amp in which a track composed of various field recordings was played through. The sound played through the amp caused the water and in turn the reflection to vibrate. The response of the water and the reflection of the light to the sound were recorded separately.

 The left is a video projection of lighted water, whose form is mimetic of the glass tank it was placed in. The right is a video projection of the light reflected off of the water, whose form also is mimetic of how it appeared in situation. The projections appear to just be dissonant static, though for a fleeting moment they will line up.

The process of the entire piece employs this idea of "lost in translation". The projections which become two differing abstract landscapes work to attempt to visualize two different perceptions of a situation (the sound). Through their existence they encounter these transient moments of unity and connection.

Because I Could Not Find The Words...