Slide show, 2007


My work discusses coming to terms with growing up in an increasingly sophisticated world. Many works show images and objects from childhood to interpret the departure from innocence and passing of childhood naïveté. Each piece communicates a sort of sarcastic sublime feeling; as if the world, with its inevitable immensity, is only a moment away from devouring the piece.
Graphic images of slides are used to allude to development in the 2007 video projection, Slide Show. The lines cut across the picture plane forming the image of a slide while simultaneously creating an image that appears like data in a line graph. On one screen, two slides cross each other corresponding to a graph of the interaction. On another screen, a slide crosses the top of the picture plane then begins to curve downward in an increasingly steepened manner as it spikes downward; this graph describes the concept of diminishing returns. Each graphic image appears to analyze a bit of data and describe a learned concept. This data is depicted graphically as fanciful slides. As a viewer absorbs each image, the slide is understood simultaneously as graph in entirety and as an image of a slide. Each slide curves, crashes, and compares itself to another in a bold diagrammatic fashion. Some slides would be impossible, some dangerous, others simply un-fun! The viewer combines these impressions with the literal meaning of the graph to draw new conclusions from the data.




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