“Trees Interrupted ”
Reversal ©2007 – 3-minute. Video clip 
Theme: This video is screened seperately, and is also one of the two video element for the Reversal installation. Within each format, it is about the cycle of life, remembering source and human identity. Glacier water is used for its references to contemporary discourse on human-environmental interface issues such as rapid global warming. Metaphors of compressed and extended time, shifting states of being, memory, and renewal are embedded in both the materiality of the glacier water and the edited mirrored reversal action of the glacier river flow. The action of the shoreline seemingly to open and close like a doorway references hope as the water rushes back-and-forth, subsurface rocks rising only to be submerged again by convergence of water. My intent is to create a liminal-like space into which the viewer enters and may experience a shift in consciousness of oneness with the whole.
Inspiration: Compression of time and shifting states of being are metaphorically referenced by the use of Glacier water. In 2006, when visiting the Athabaska Glacier output from the Columbia Ice Fields near Banff Alberta I was moved by how much it had melted and receded. Small clear water streams carve ruts in the gravel debris left behind and eventually contribute to the Bow River. The location of the video footage capture is the narrow shallow portion of the Bow River at the town of Banff.
Format: DVD
Time: 3-minutes
Date: ©2007
Distributor: V-tape http://www.vtape.org/