The film installation examinse the emmeshed relationships between light, memory and environment.
VORTEX
1979
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DIAGRAMATIC REPRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT
VIEW OF THE SITE
THE FINAL ARTWORK FEATURED FIVE PROJECTIONS AS REPRESENTED HERE
THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT CALLED FOR NINE PROJECTIONS
Description
Vortex is a series of five films shot and shown at Art Park in Lewiston, New York in 1978. The goal of this project was to locate and document a whirlpool that appears in the river at different times of the year when the water level reaches a particular height. The film camera was positioned over the river to photograph directly down into the surface of the water. This one film was then subdivided into five films that were projected onto the floor of the gallery in a cruciform shape to best represent the phenomenon of the whirlpool itself.
The fragmented image spins across the floor of the gallery with the central core shifting in and out of the central projection, the whirling image appearing to descend down through the floor of the space itself. This sense of whirling movement isolated within such a geometric form within the gallery heightens one’s sense of the filmed environments' relationship to light as a vector of memory.