Bolinas

2008; 13'; mini-DV; silent

Breath gives rise to form.
----Paola Santoscoy----

Land's End

in-progress; mini-DV; sound

Between the seer & the seen—a blinding stillness.
A light cold white line on salt water is the world's resting-point out.
----Fanny Howe----

I think that most art which begins to make a statement fails to make a statement because the methods used are too schematic or too artificial. I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement.
----Jasper Johns----

SEE

minatures seeking "when sensation forces thought into momentary retreat."
minatures attempting to "let the tree [in bloom] stand where it stands."

South Fork Yuba River Studies

2009; digital video; silent

Sometimes I feel my painting right up against my face,
the thing that refuses to be thought.
----Bridget Riley----

The word "idea" comes from the Greek εἴδω
which means to see, face, meet, be face-to-face.
----Martin Heidegger----

The mirrors would do well to reflect further.

2009; site-specific video installation
collaboration with composer Erik Ulman

But now she walked beside the graceful god,
her steps constricted by the trailing graveclothes,
uncertain, gentle, and without impatience.
She was deep within herself, like a woman heavy
with child, and did not see the man in front
or the path ascending steeply into life.
Deep within herself. Being dead
filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit
suffused with its own mystery and sweetness,
she was filled with her vast death, which was so new,
she could not understand that it had happened.

----Rainer Maria Rilke----
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.

happened at Ice on the High * curated by Maggie Foster and Kim Anno * Berkeley, December 2009

Pen Pal Dances

collaboration with dancer & visual artist Erin Ming Lee

There is a kind of story, God, that glides along under everything else that is happening, and this kind of story only jumps out into the light like a silver fish when it wants to see where it lives in relation to everything else.

Everything that has form is also a mathmatical secret and has to move very quickly to avoid being solved.

----Fanny Howe----
Indivisible

might never jump out into the light....

Poto Metal

2009; mini-DV

visual collaboration with Heather Gordon & Michael Newton
and with composer David Coll & his Speaking Metals

happened at Poto Festival 2009
& Ice on the High * curated by Maggie Foster and Kim Anno * Berkeley, December 2009

WALKING IN A CIRCLE OR A DIAGONAL LINE

2007; 6'25"; mini-DV & .AVI

video within choreographer Erin Ming Lee's dance
7 1/2 CENTS: WALKING IN A CIRCLE OR A DIAGONAL LINE
dancers: Erin Ming Lee, Jessica Ray, Marcia Scott, & Tamara Yadao

performances/screenings: OM Factory, New York City, January 2007

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2006; 3'; mini-DV; silent
3 months in a yellow shower

screenings: 3x3 Video Exhibition, EFA Gallery, New York City, November 2006;
Poto Festival 2007

A cup of tea for Carolyn.

2005; 4'48"; mini-DV;
images: collaboration with Carolyn Chen
text: Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I saw her kiss him," said Susan.

"I see the beetle," said Susan. "It is black, I see; it is green, I see;
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away;
you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases."
----Virginia Woolf----

screenings: Foothill Video Festival, Los Altos, CA, April 2005;
Poto Festival 2005, Grass Valley, CA

My Hip's Pleasure

2002; 9'47"; for solo dancer
music: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Studie I

performances: All by Erin Ming Lee; all in San Diego: Sushi Gallery, Center for Moving Arts, & the San Diego Dance Festival at Balboa Park

drainage; portals; and a nonabsorbable suture (redux)

2003; 10"; for solo violin

performances: All by Erik Ulman; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003; Poto Festival 2004