These prints were produced from software composites of video taken from a helicopter above Chicago over one afternoon. They are each unique and archivally printed.
The landscape is populated by homes, industry, green space, commercial strips and transportation arteries. The density and scale rapidly increase as you enter downtown, abruptly ending at the lake, which creates its own morphing landscape.
All of the visual data and conceptual issues raised were compressed into a 90 minute experience. I offer slices of that experience, reorganized and manipulated.
Primary to my work is the desire to "be" within an experience. Through video I record events over time. The period of time and number of cameras varies, ranging from hours to years. Custom software captures, edits and stores video to hard drives. The resulting video files are continuously composited on-screen. This process investigates the possibilities and impossibilities of the experience, an endless meditation on being at a specific place over time. Images are manipulated, overlaid and juxtaposed creating poetry from the fluid and ever changing reorganization of the primary experience.
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