Feeler  [cycles]

Digital Video / Installation - Five Channel

Between 2010 and 2012 I created a body of work exploring direct experience of space and presence though video. The work experiments with the use of my hands and the camera to collect spaces of tactile dialogue and kinesthetic play between myself and the space of my awareness.  The camera becomes the gaze of attention and my hands an extension of my intention, will, and perception. The videos explore ecstatic experiences of existential awe and wonder via a deep fascination with physicality. 

Feeler (cycles), a five channel video installation, is part of a series that explores spaces of relationship between perceiver and perceived. It is an investigation or spaces that exist beyond language and ways in which language buffers us from the external world, filtering our processes of perception. Drawing from autistic perception and the use of tactility, I am attempting to circumvent these linguistic buffers and navigate sensation directly while utilizing video looping and repetition to assist in the linguistic breakdown. Metallic bolts sit within each shot, reflecting and pulling the larger space that this process exists within, into the process itself.