untitled, (a collapse)
untitled, (a collapse) - 14 x 33" - 3 pinhole photographs
untitled, (a collapse) - video still
Untitled, (A Collapse) consists of three pieces that simultaneously occupy the space; two videos and a pinhole c-print, which speak to ideas of distance, mortality and deferral. The works are informed by my formative years in South Florida and having had nine friends pass away from drug overdose and suicide. These shared stories can be related to the Greek myth of Icarus who fell in love with the feeling of flying and flew too close to the sun melting his wings made of wax and feathers, then falling to his demise. The direct depictions of the sun, in the video and photographs, recall the downfall of Icarus. The first video is a loop of a sunset that does not set. This experience offers the space to contemplate the expected setting of the sun, and liken it to our own inevitable passing. Directly across from this video hang three pinhole photos of the sun that also speak to time passing. The final piece is a text-based video. A series of statements from a conversation about remembrance are presented that contemplate the end of something: a relationship, a life, an experience.