Caroline, 2021
Single-channel video, 16x9, color
Stereo sound
20:00
Synopsis
A moonrise over Newhall, California, in July 2020, recontextualized via sound from a spring pond in Caroline, New York, from July 2011.
A meditation on time, attention, memory, and reverie.
Sound from the breaking of spring echoes into blurred and hypnotic summer evening lights, constructing a fantastical location built from time and distance, steeped in our perceptions and reminiscences. Its slow-moving image, generated by pushing a consumer camcorder to its limits of resolution and light sensitivity, abstracts the land- and life-scape of its subject, breaking with a narrative approach to allow a viewer to feel, hear, and see directly.
Visiting Caroline, we sift through our memories for afterimages that help us make sense of the present moment.
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Screenings and exhibitions
Earth Day Art Model, Tavel Center/IUPUI, April 22, 2021
SPHERE World Cinema Carnival, Kolkata, May 14-23, 2021
Lacuna Festival 2021: Distance, Lanzarote, July 2-August 1, 2021
Decontexts group exhibition, LoosenArt, Rome, July 5-13, 2021
Refamiliarization group exhibition, Platform Artspace, UC-Berkeley, September 30, 2021
ROMBAK juried exhibition, Multimedia University Malaysia, November 16-December 16, 2021
Over the Structures 2022 group exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea, March 16-April 3, 2022