Below the Surface, 2023, Single Channel Video, Sound, Loop
Below the Surface was created from underwater video and audio recordings taken in Arctic waters around the Svalbard Archipelago. The vertical movement depicts a never-ending depth of water and melting ice. As the Arctic grapples with climate change, the amount of glacial melt is increasing while the amount of sea ice is decreasing. It is almost impossible to understand the amount of change from a human perspective and time will inevitably reveal the impact. Video footage has been manipulated to create the illusion of kinetic activity, suggesting the actions are taking place at a much quicker rate than we see or experience. The vocalization of bearded seals can be heard throughout the work as if they are singing a song for the Arctic.
Scanning the Greenland Sea, 2021, Single Channel Video, Sound, Loop
Scanning The Greenland Sea explores the colors of the intricate and repetitive motion of the sea as seen and recorded from a cliff on Grímsey Island. In this work, blue horizontal bars are set in motion like waves moving toward a viewer or perhaps the viewer traveling over the sea. The color bars are sampled from a single column of pixels in a video still of the sea and sky. Shapes representing waves or underwater shadows and the sounds of Arctic birds are intermittent to disrupt what could otherwise be a meditative experience.
Midnight Sun, 2019, Single Channel Video
Midnight Sun is a composite of digitally altered short video clips taken of the midnight sun and the natural landscape in northern Iceland. The colors are directly related to the video as a stretched column of pixels, and shapes of the landscapes are traced from these recorded landscapes. The kinetic layers and movement of shapes compress time from hours into minutes and vast spaces into a 2-dimensional scene. As the forms slowly move out of view like curtains, colors of a sunset sink and begin to disappear, but as witnessed in true summer northern latitudes, never completely dip below the horizon and return for another day.
Northward, 2019, Single Channel Video, Sound, Loop
Northward is a series of video clips captured during three visits to Iceland between 2014 and 2018. The clips are organized according to the latitude of each shot location starting with the most southern location and moving north. Blocks of color, lines, layers, and shapes move from top to bottom across the screen referencing the ever-changing environment of Icelandic geological features such as lava flows, waterfalls, and glaciers. Sounds of the wind and interjections of birds and altered sounds move with the landscape and forms.
Cycles, 2019, Single Channel Video, Loop
Water Collection, 2017, Single Channel Video
Water Collection is an abstract composition of video clips taken at four geographical areas where water is an important visual and audible component. A waterfall, geyser, volcanic lake, and clouds make up the visual composition with mixed audio channels to produce the sound of rushing water. Extracted pixels from the video create layers and patterns of motion. The work is a continuous loop and there is no true beginning or end.
Diamond Beach, 2017, Single Channel Video, Loop
Sea/Ice/Land/Sky, 2015, Single Channel Video
Sea/Ice/Land/Sky was made in response to the Icelandic landscape. Each individual video clip represents a short moment of attention and presence while on location observing natural phenomenon. Shapes of the ocean, icebergs, mountain, and sky hold the images of geological layers that quickly appear and disappear, displaying a diversity of color, texture, and motion, and generating a constantly changing visual landscape.
Strata, 2015, Video Projection, Stereo Sound
Midnights, 2015, Single Channel Video