INSTILLATION WORK

to slide unintentionally for a short distance, typically losing one's balance or footing.
to pass without having been acted upon; be lost; get away
to move, flow, go smoothly or easily; glide; slide
to let go of.

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I half woke up with the feeling of slipping. I laid in its layers and pondered its slippery
definitions. I wanted to be a slippery body; to be both smooth and clumsy enough to
evade singularity; to fracture reality just enough to slide between its fissures; to play in
the slickness of time.

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I am creating a moving body of work that plays in pluralism, a dance that can’t be caught.
This is a process of choreographing multiple spaces through my singular body.
The movement is improvised; the individual spaces become the score. What aspect of
space seeps into my body creating a new dance with each environment? Through these
two multichannel videos, deviation and uniting are revealed through body and space.

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I am layered, abstracted, and complicated through reflecting myself in water. What parts
of me are cut out of frame must be gathered through puddles or lake reflections. In order
to patch together a kinetic whole, the viewer is implied in a game of synthesis. In addition
to the multiple videos and the multiple selves through reflections, slow fading transitions
within both videos create transitory interactions with two translucent selves.

My kinetic body seeks to move within stillness of place, to refract and layer itself in
reflection. It moves between polarity and unity. It seeks balance. It slips.