Multimedia Installation

the measure of all things

2022
Site-specific installation: video monitors, single-channel video, light projection, silk print on metal pole, power and connection cables
dimensions variable
Exhibitions
the white flag — Chocolate Drop, Twentynine Palms, CA, 2021.
the measure of all things — The Studio Door, San Diego, CA, 2022.
the white flag, in no thing at all — level of service not required (LOS/NR), La Jolla, CA, August 29 – October 5, 2024.
Artist's Statement

the measure of all things is a site-specific multimedia installation taking into account Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, a drawing of a man as part of a circle and a square, capturing the perfection of the human body, and proposing that the Renaissance man, as God's supreme creation, was the measure of all things.

Video monitors, light projection, power and connection cables are employed in this installation, along with a large silk print mounted on a metal pole — chaos and chance are observed in reference to the tendency of the natural world. Seven video clips are singularly, asynchronously, and simultaneously played on monitors, all depicting photo-drawings on silks of human bodies in different life conjectures and of different surrounding contexts. Technology is contrasted with the natural world, and the suggestion is made that the human body is being expelled out of man-made materials.

Images of former selves are distorted by the elements of nature, and as technology becomes nature, nature becomes as well — human body as the common denominator — and oblivion ensues. The falling of a white flag, bearing a multitude of human bodies, postures into this space as a reverse call for transcendence. Virtual is real, real is on the inside, and the present takes hold. Overarching measurement reels.

the measure of all things, installation view at The Studio Door, San Diego, 2022 — silk flag on metal pole with video projection and wall-mounted monitor
the measure of all things, installation view at The Studio Door, San Diego, 2022 — wall of four small video monitors with cables and indicator lights
Installation Walkthrough
the measure of all things, installation walkthrough, The Studio Door, San Diego, 2022.
the white flag — silk flag bearing human-body imagery flying against a blue desert sky, 2021
the white flag, 2021 · silk print, aluminum · installation view at Chocolate Drop, Twentynine Palms, CA, 2021
the white flag — Video
the white flag, 2021 · single-channel video · 3 min 22 sec.
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