Distant (2010) relies on mixed media and invites viewer interaction. A drafting table appears lit from above by video projections. After sitting down, the viewer becomes drawn in to the surface of soft, white flour. Moving the flour reveals hand written prose on thin tracing paper. The stream of conscious writing shifts between travel, relationships, and longing. As the flour is moved, the video from above shifts across the desk. The video traces an abstract, perhaps imaginary, map that traverses the shifting topography -- namely, the flour that the viewer has moved with his or her fingers. Across the gallery a journal appears in a folio case. Attached by a thin black cord, the folio case contains an inset video of another shifting landscape.
View stills from the installation.
