Some Notes

The work in this inaugural show represents possible expressions of the concept of “Gramática parda” (tawny or earthy grammar, the grammar of nature).  And by extension (through Gary Snyder), the notion that the grammars of culture, civilization and nature are of the same order.  All of the work is concise in regards to these ideas - but in a poetic sense (rich, nonlinear).

I’m finishing up the videos for the show and am posting a few notes on each of them…  Opinions and thoughts are likely to expand/contract/change.

Homage to the Great Emitter

The source footage was shot in various locations: Santa Monica under water, Exposition Park, Griffith Park.

Made up of roughly 300 layers of video rendered as concentric rings scaled up from the center with each ring representing an individual frame.  The structure results in what looks like a continuous emanation.

It is part of a series of pieces that I describe as “spatialized time” (I’m putting the last of these in this show). I took as its base a standard moving image and restructured into a sort of timeline.

The title is from Robert Monroe (who was the inspiration behind the 3D piece I did for the show called “Locale”).

The piece (and the others in the series) is about visual perception and visual representation of time and dimensional space.  Fitting that it looks like an eye in this respect – the image of the eye is important in other work in the show as well.

There is a CGI bit in the middle that I use as a bridge to reverse the video into a loop.  Beyond its function as a transition, I think of it as representing a mental or perceptual leap (perhaps that’s too obvious).