Video and multimedia works that explore the human relationship to non-human Nature. Both In This Place and Icarus Burning are current, ongoing, projects in the studio.
108 Degrees Fahrenheit
This short was made one day in August 2020 when the temperature at my home in Sonoma County California reached 108 degrees. These temperatures were once unheard of here near the ocean in Northern California. Now, they happen with some regularity in late summer. A few days later, the great California conflagration of 2020 began.
The video is a time-lapse created from still images from the Nasa Solar Dynamics Observatory. The musical track reflects my state of mind as the temperatures rose in my un-airconditioned studio.
In This Place
A 12 minute meditation on the sky. This video is a sketch for a larger ongoing project. In This Place is a personal response to being quarantined during the Covid-19 Pandemic and is composed from video of the sky and audio of ambient sounds produced from my home in Sonoma County California; woven together with a MIDI/synth harmonic track.
Icarus Burning
A current, and ongoing, multi-media art project that is an artistic exploration of human hubris resulting in environmental disaster; it is a project about how our own ingenuity and exuberance has caused us to carelessly exalt our technological prowess, forgetting that we are mere mortals, subject to the forces of nature.
In 2020, over 4 million acres of the California landscape was consumed by wildfire making it clear that we have done so at our own peril. A growing network of wildfire monitoring web cams is being developed in California, Nevada, and Oregon. This network of cameras provided a unique view of the 2020 wildfires.
Icarus Burning is a project being built from images captured by the webcams. The still photos from the webcams are digitally manipulated to create individual photographic prints, or stitched together to create time-lapse video sequences. The time-lapse sequences are woven together with mass-media video, audio captured from emergency radio scanners, and a MIDI/synth harmonic track to create video works.
