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 Still from video With our own Eyes, 1991 Video Listings |
As artists we are the myth-makers of who we are as a people and we hold those myths in our family stories, passed down through time and in our fiction; we hold them in our poems and in our music; we hold them in our paintings, in our pottery, in our tapestries and in our sculpture; we hold them in our dance and in our drama; in our photography, in our film and in our video. We hold those myths in the work that is inspired by tradition as well as that which is fueled with the urgency to experiment and explore. It is work that comments and work that questions. It is work that explodes with triumph, screams with grief, staggers with wonder and crumbles with humility. We are the myth-makers of who we are as people and we constantly place and replace that myth into the world. And what we do becomes part of a vast and diverse visceral vocabulary through which we communicate- in a large, public and global arena, and at the very same instant- with a very intimate, personal and private connection. I am an artist. And the work that I make leaves a trail and that trail is my journey. I am an artist and the work that I make has a shape…… and that shape is me….. and that shape is my myth. Image descriptions: I make time-based art using video technology as a tool. I choose this media because I like the contemporary properties of electronic phenomena and the process of replicating reality through an electronic and ephemeral interpretation of light. I see video as an accessible "tool for the masses" as opposed to cinema. I like the fact that video has a two-dimensional, flat, unflattering way of re-presenting the world and I use those attributes as comment. Every one of my videos is unique. |