| When physical experiences are finished, we cling to them in our minds reliving and replaying them. They deteriorate, parts go blank,parts become stronger then they were in physical reality. The descriptive is lost over time, while the suggestive, the general emotion and atmosphere, becomes more intense. I find a poetic beauty in this vagary that remains lingering in our minds. A truth of pure experience emerges when the defined and the associative degenerate. Although the episodes in the external world make up our life, if they did not reincarnate themselves into a collection of memories and thoughts we would not have a notion of the "self." To me, this mental reality is much more intriguing and interesting then the experience of physical reality. I am on an expedition to explore this frontier of the cerebral landscape, the location where the self resides. I am interested in the imagery of introspection. I think of the mind as a setting, a location with its own visual logic. I strive for the inarticulate imagery of the internal, of memory and nostalgia - partiality, softness and blurring, the intensity of pure light and color. I am looking to create meditative environments with video, giving the impression that the viewer is experiencing the space of a mental reality. The distorted familiarity that is experienced creates a sense of longing and loss in one's attempt to read it. I want to explore our processes of perception, and create atmospheric spaces that seem to house that which can be felt but not so easily articulated. |