Video and Technology Projects

“With you” 2019

This piece started out as just the painting on burlap. While adding layer after layer I started to become more aware of the texture of the burlap. I found myself really interested in how rough and at times sharpe it felt on my hand. Once, when I just was staring at it tapped to my closet door a car drove by throwing the light around the painting in all directions. That was when it hit me that what surrounds the painting needs to transformative. Originally thinking a simple video of some kind to interact with painting. In the background of working on this I was getting my feet wet with the projection mapping software Madmapper. While experimenting with this software I began exploring its interactive capabilities. I knew at that point I could make the painting come alive. I attached sensors to the back of the painting and using a transmitter to send the signal to a computer allowed the two videos to change in real time as the viewer touches the painting.

“Looking Glass” 2017

In the fall of 2017 I found myself with a 16mm projector and being throughly seduced by the nostalgia of it as an object. I knew I wanted to incorporate it but did not know how. Using it for what it is supposed to do seemed too simple and straight forward. While doing something else in my studio I walked by it with a magnifying glass and noticed how the light could easily break the parameters of the image space. This bounced around my head awhile tell I decided to shoot some 16mm film (which I had never done before). To my surprise, the footage was properly exposed and when I loaded the film and focused the projector something much more interesting than I ever expected happened. Looking back it seems obvious that it would make a camera obscura but at the time it blew me away. I fixed the magnifying glass lens so that it would not move around and focused the image through the second lens. It flipped and reversed the image but it was sharpe and readable. This piece was exhibited at the Abington Art Center in North Philadelphia.