Single channel video. DV 2007

Appropriating its title from the Tim Buckley's song, 'u never asked to be my mountain' is a series of static portraits of a black Saab 900 placed in every day documentary scenes.
A low-tech exercise in visual trickery serves as a playful reminder that it may only take a very minor shift in perception for all things insurmountable to suddenly appear very small.

SITTING IS BELIEVING

Single channel video. DV 2007

The conceptual twin to Imago, Sitting is Believing continues an exploration of the architectural space of incubated desire & urban portraiture. Here the stationary, frozen element is an object. The video consists of a series of portraits of abandoned prams in public places embodying a familiar urban condition.

Single channel video. DV 2007

The skyline of Los Angeles is identified by its palm trees and like most of its inhabitants its population of trees are from elsewhere, immigrants. The city receives a continuous face lift with it’s mature full size palms being undug, beautified and replanted.
This video is a harrowing observation of the uprooting process of one such tree.

Single channel video. DV 2006

Conceived as a hypothesis that ones favorite line from a movie contains within it the essence of a person’s ideal, a passion, conviction or sense of self IMAGO maps a series of frozen moments in the Los Angeles acting community.
Each actor is seen in their day job delivering their favorite line from a movie, mapping the day to day architectural space where desire is incubated.

SICH SELBST VIS-à-VIS
(Ones self vis-a-vis)

2 channel video. DV 2006

Side by side locked of shots observing 2 children at play. On the left a little girl's presence is silent, assuring and consistant. A little boy’s world on the right screen is chaotic, closer and vibrant. As he wanders in and out of frame one begins to wonder what he is doing when not there.
A contrasting of their different worlds and behaviour becomes inevitable but it’s also a meditation on the similarities.