Turning
Image and time are in constant conversation. The pace, place, and purpose
of coming and going are deciphered from our visual perception
and recorded in our minds.
How does recollection convert our movements to memory?
Turning attempts to address this question. The process affecting
the video evokes blurry recall. As in our lived experience
and memories of that experience--what we are experiencing is a
blurring of time; an averaging of our perception over the course of
days and nights. And yet vivid moments will flash back, as if we
were there in the now.
We are never in danger of depleting our memories, and they can be entered at any point
in their episode. Turning is one of these episodes; a looped presentation of
the grit and neon of negotiating Shanghai traffic.
Process
Turning is a 15 minute loop for single channel projection. The footage was taken over
several days and nights from the back of a bicycle in Shanghai, China. It was then composed
into a seamless loop of days and nights processed with custom software.
The process blurs windows of consecutive frames over time in a manner akin, but
not identical, to frame averaging. Details are preserved where there is little movement, and
movements tend to ease in and out inducing a mesmerizing slow motion quality.
Media
