Portrait
This summer and fall I created Portrait. It is made up of three videos--Portrait: Part 2,3, and 4--each an improvised movement piece. The three performances are very different and each explores ideas of their own, all three, however, are united under the shared meta theme of being about performance. This was one of my first international foray into making work that is meaningful before it is a piece, instead being given meaning after the fact.
I created a version of Portrait for the art show and for submission to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Where it played the role on an installation. I set up a large scrim in the Pilot room and hung tulle from the ceiling, creating two extra projection surfaces in the room. This was so that I could use three projectors, to project each of the three parts of Portrait along with their artist statement and the statement for the whole piece. For the art show I opened the windows in the Pilot room so that the room became cold, so that when you stepped into the room it was like entering a different world.
Below is the web version.
I created a version of Portrait for the art show and for submission to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Where it played the role on an installation. I set up a large scrim in the Pilot room and hung tulle from the ceiling, creating two extra projection surfaces in the room. This was so that I could use three projectors, to project each of the three parts of Portrait along with their artist statement and the statement for the whole piece. For the art show I opened the windows in the Pilot room so that the room became cold, so that when you stepped into the room it was like entering a different world.
Below is the web version.
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Artist Statement
Portrait: Part 2 Is about being alone, And performing. Idea → Plan → Perform It is About being beautiful It was For no one but me About light It has Planned structure |
Portrait: Part 3 Is about letting go, And performing. Vision → Idea → Perform It is About being powerful It was Hard Out of control It has Unintentional Structure |
Portrait: Part 4 Is about (dis)content, And performing. Image → Perform→ Idea It is About being spontaneous It was Not planned An addition It has Added Structure |
Portrait
Is about performance, And self image. It is about Solitude Stillness Location Structure Vision Purpose Connection Audience And Me |