Project Description

title forthcoming, 2012
Video with audio motion sensor
Duration: 00.42 seconds
Production and Special Effects: Tom Hillman
Post-production: Pendulum Entertainment Inc.

title forthcoming is about the experience of perception. It explores the notion of seeing
something and then no longer seeing it, immersing the viewer in the work by
heightening an awareness of looking.

This is a series of moving graphite drawings. I think of each frame as a complete image
that I ordered into a sequence using stop-motion. I interrupted the video and used white
screens to visually illustrate memory and how the eye sees an image after it is
gone—an after image. A visual trance unfolds through the course of time. Flickering and
blurred images produce a series of blanks or negative spaces for the viewer to fill in as
an attempt to capture the image. The image becomes clear at the end of the video but
for only a moment; time renders a sense of brief clarity. Perception offers a fleeting
illusion that both absorbs and disorients the viewer.

Accompanying sounds suggest the passing of time begin with pages turning in
a book, rhythmic ticking, watch winding and finally the noise of applause to signal an
ending.

The video monitor is in an enclosed space which the viewer enters through an opening
in curtains. Using a motion-activated sensor, the video begins when the viewer enters
and approaches the screen.