the measure of all things
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installation shots, The Studio Door, San Diego, 2022
the measure of all things is a site specific multimedia installation taking into account Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, a drawing of a man as part of a circle and a square, capturing the perfection of the human body, and proposing that the Renaissance man, as God’s supreme creation, was the measure of all things.
Video monitors, light projection, power and connection cables are employed in this installation, along with a large silk print mounted on a metal pole - chaos and chance are observed in reference to the tendency of the natural world. Seven video clips are singularly, asynchronously, and simultaneously played on monitors, all depicting photo-drawings on silks of human bodies in different life conjectures and of different surrounding contexts. Technology is contrasted with the natural world, and the suggestion is made that the human body is being expelled out of man made materials. Images of former selves are distorted by the elements of nature, and as technology becomes nature, nature becomes as well - human body as the common denominator - and oblivion ensues. The falling of a white flag, bearing a multitude of human bodies, postures into this space as a reverse call for transcendence. Virtual is real, real is on the inside, and the present takes hold. Overarching measurement reels.
the arrow / 2020 / single channel video / 1 minute 17 seconds
the time keeper / 2020 / single channel video / 1 minute 52 seconds
the sleeper / 2020 / single channel video / 51 seconds
the swordsman / 2020 / single channel video / 36 seconds
the traveler / 2020 / single channel video / 38 seconds
the vessel / 2020 / single channel video / 35 seconds
the photographer / 2020 / single channel video / 1 minute 11 seconds
the white flag / 2021 / single channel video / 3 minute 22 seconds
