Central Walk Through
3:09
From cosmic to local levels, one basic way of understanding time, is as a function of the relationship between movement and shape. How we experience and relate to a place results from the ways our body moves through that place over time—moments, days, seasons, and so on. Central Walk Through integrates various layers and scales of perception towards depicting some of the textures, patterns, cycles, and tensions present in central Utah’s Sanpete Valley.
Providensity
1:19
Providensity is a response to monocrop agriculture, its impacts on the places where we grow our food, and how these relate to our consumer appetites. The background video presents a small fraction of one orchard and was taken while driving 55 mph on a highway in Kern County, California. (The central valleys of California produce one quarter of everything we eat in the US.) This work is an exercise in apprehending the enormity of monocrop agriculture and depicting the material relationships between sites of production and sites of consumption.
Meditation for old and young souls
2:04
Meditation for old and young souls reflects on the experience of becoming a parent, specifically within the first several weeks. Time, space, and motion seem to collapse and expand; there is intensity and calm in the same moment; gestures and activities cycle back into themselves continuously. As one's focus turns to the present, there is potential for insight and perspective.
A Penny for Your Thoughts
1:46
A Penny for Your Thoughts explores the imagination of childhood and the desire to capture and hold on to a seemingly fleeting bounty of creativity and curiosity.
Getting ourselves out the door on Friday
5:42
A live action Movement Archives drawing.