T H E _T R E E

3 - channel video installation - 56 minutes loop 2009 -2012


 

 

" I grew up in a city - an environment constructed by humans,


all that my senses registered had been filtered through the human intellect.


This experience gave me a warped sense of REALITY that was reinforced by living in a time

and a culture that celebrates an anthropocentric perspective.

The second part of my life, I kept this body surrounded by organic beings,

were the information read by my senses follow different patterns and rythms,

without obvious borders between organisms, and a different sense of time - cyclic - eternal,

compared to the static city rhythms.

My intellect has made it clear that this body is an insignificant part of this wonderous system

and the illusion of my seperation is only in the construction of language.

This film is an attempt at atonement,


to merge two views of my being,
 as being a biological process ( body, nature ),


and being an intellectual being (mind, thought, will).

To try to see my own movements in the same cyclical process that permeates NATURE,

- a series of simplified symbols of intellect in realtion to the rythm of nature.

gb 2012