I am finishing up my Spring quarter class at Evergreen State College. The class is called: Radical Amazement–Interrogating the Everyday through Poetry and Video Essay. Our midterm was a collaborative video essay, and our final was a solo video essay. For both, it was preferred we use still photographs only, so I did. If your want to see them, they are posted here: https://vimeo.com/42939757
Let me know what you think.
Here is my artist statement:
The Light Between
Things
Our every day, as well as the everydayness of our experience,
is under the influence of our perceptions and judgments of what reality is. As
a young child I believed that waking reality was not real at all, but a dream
to awaken from. This was a belief I could not easily shake as I grew older. The
beliefs we cling to, effect the way we see the world, and distortions viewed
from one person’s perspective are reality to another. Insomnia, dreaming, and the
beliefs in-between them – are explored in this lyrical, meditative essay.
I took many photographs at night to practice with a new
camera, and to my surprise these became the images I wanted for the video. I
discovered that images shot with varying high resolutions could express the way
realness is sometimes not very crisp, but rather dreamy. Sounds of nature are
heard in the background, both grounding and meditative, they serve as representatives
of portals to other ways of experiencing.
