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Waterfall, 2009 is a 26-minute single-shot video. Beginning with a view of the top of a 335-meter waterfall, the camera tilts slowly down to reveal the sinuous falls and finally a public viewing platform at the bottom, a banal conclusion to the excruciatingly slow revelation of the waterfall. The durational aspect of the work is an invitation to consider both the physical scale (and beauty) of the waterfall and conventional expectations about viewing time for moving images.
My work in video investigates ʻplaceʼ, specifically Vancouverʼs urban and rural topographies. I usually work in locations that contain evidence of human presence but are in transition: building sites, demolition sites, vacant lots, overgrown gardens, disused industrial land on the outskirts of the city. Culture encroaches on nature. Nature encroaches on culture. Central to this work is the treatment of time as a material—I work exclusively with single unedited camera shots. I am interested in how duration and stillness in a video projection can evoke a sense of place, of presentness for the observer.
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