Reversal Video Installation Elements
Reversal, video installation c. 2007. The above image shows the layout of installation elements illustrating the idea of the visitor as being subject with the work in their turning action to view contrasting types of water videos.
The centre image illustrates one version of the installation where monitors face each other on government issue telephone tables from the 1950’s. A corridor of bright green imitation grass references human intervention in nature, while also inviting he visitor to position themselves between the monitors. Their turning back-and-forth to view the contrasting types of water videos places them as subject with the work.
Reversal, video projection installation c. 2009 has the videos projected one facing walls. It has been shown at the Banff Centre Other Gallery and the Alhamra Gallery in Lahore Pakistan in this way.
In both approaches, this seeing action through turning creates a space, or time slippage, for imagination to question and experience oneness with the whole. The back-and-forth, in-and-out actions of the videos and of the visitor reference how we try to remember source before we move foreward into consciousness and an identity shift.