Media Proposal (Video, Paint)

     Beginning where I left off; the last academic years work culminated in the creation of a painted diptych. A conversation about the malleable ‘grey area’ that exists between perception and reality, between different cultural attitudes, and more specifically commenting on the nature of individuality; questioning our ability to connect and establish a dialect. The intention for my coming work is to continue an investigation into the indefinite, using the nature of memory and our experience of ‘self’ to explore the entropy of impermanence.

    The writer Eckhart Tolle discusses our relationship to the ‘self’ or ‘ego’. We propel ours ‘selves’ back and forth, through past and future, inadvertently grasping at a control; assumption and identification, the poisonous nutrition of false validation. Ultimately he proposes that we accept our place in the eternal presence of the now. Following this logic I have began exploring how we relate to our memories, understanding that we largely derive and identify ourselves with them.

    I will be using the temporality of film to capture an experience, using a specifically developed video process I will be repeating the captured video. The process losses some of the original clip data per repetition; as it is constantly overwritten the image is becomes distorted to the viewer. This represents my curiosity about memory and acts as a metaphor for our inability to live in the past as it forever recesses from the present into obscurity.  

    The condensational process seen in the work of Idris Khan and Jason Salavon, is of strong relevant for my intentions to experiment, with condensing the frame by frame imagery of video into a single still, a single moment. In this vein, I am also keen to explore how the process can fit within the historical context of modernist painting; the conversation between the essential illusion of realism and the curiosity of abstraction. Just as Pollock transformed the easel bound canvas into a floor, a stage. I intend to reconsider the very human experience of time and memory.