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Multi-Media Installation
Video Projection, Sound, Pool, Water, Sand and River Pebbles

Statement:

In this video installation the spirit of the underwater world is summoned up by the power of the salmon in their transformative journey. The pool of water in this video installation creates a visual and emotional resonance for the video imagery projected into it. River pebbles surround the pond. The sound of rushing water in a stream permeates the installation space. As light flickers on the surface of the water the salmon glide on the surface of the water as well as swim through the eerie depths of the stream.

The video is projected from a projector on the ceiling of the gallery into the pool. The pool has white sand in the bottom and is surrounded by black river pebbles. The installation is 54 inches wide by 38 inches high by 3 inches deep.

This installation parallels to bodyworld experiences, transforming my way of being in the world. The social world, the natural world and more so the intimate world warped like the chaotic molecules in the stretch of a rubber band. Words were silenced ..... simultaneously with an explosion of connections to the intimate dimensions of nature. Intensified in my everyday experience, wind brings tears as it patterns the sunshine with shadows of trees and undulating leaves. Colors embody light particles themselves. Charging molecules, reshaped with light, patterns of my body, of my soul are reshaped with blasts of light. Winds move the water, continuously reforming the image of one's life. Translucent layers move spontaneously to reveal and conceal simultaneously, like firelight in a ceremonial dance protecting the secrecy of symbolic forms painted on one's body.

Rays of Light Exhibition, Lightology Gallery, Chicago, November - December 2002.
FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, May 2002.