CATEA Consumer Network Summer and Fall 2006 Newsletter
The unifying theme in all of my single-channel video work is a concentration on experimental narrative structure and composition. I tend to exclude dialogue so the narrative burden is placed on balance of image, sound and transitional elements. This allows me to explore other narrative and dramatic schemes in order to identify universal narrative elements. This method stems from my interest in comparative religious traditions, adages, axioms, humanistic ideologies and biology.

A biology I am specifically interested in is the study of memory and its effects. As memory storage and retrieval is, by nature, a sequential process, time-based media involves different types of memory. I take into account these types of memory, ranging from cultural consciousness and Gestalt principles to short term and echoic memory, as I compose narrative and individual images. Creating a dramatic composition means interacting with an audience and knowing how to anticipate and play to their expectations. Much of my work, beyond single channel video, is an exploration of sound and memory as well as visual structures.



Timecode
stills from video
2001