Motion is detached from ideas of progress. Instead it drifts, floats, twitches, breathes, morphs, strobes, or erupts in frenetic activity. These works, with their vanishing objects and apparitional images, their immaterial spectres appearing and fading away, propose a concept of time that has to do with the perpetually dissolving present, the cyclical return, and perpetual recurrence of inhalation and exhalation. Instead, I offer a three dimensional window into an ontological bazaar where self deception is an oxymoron. Obliterating time and space, it offers an elusive but recurring pictorial sequence that addresses the persistence of religious iconology and the simultaneity of belief and disbelief.
Harmonic Distortion is a pair of pendular mannequin heads.
His rubber cast of himself lies on the floor slowly shrinking and shriveling as it deflates, and rejuvenating its smooth surface as it inflates, expressing horrific futility and eternal recurrence. Fit , an interactive video installation, plays on the confusion of duration and speed, and raises questions of time and control. The motionless projection of an aerobics instructor goes into action when a viewer enters the space, tempting him or her to exercise in response. Responding to presence rather than movement, the video image speeds up according to the time the viewer spends with it. And as the image of the instructor moves faster and faster, the participating viewer also tends to try to keep pace, unaware that he or she controls the video image's speed while being controlled by it.