Video Art

I have a love/hate relationship with video work. I can do it, but I’ll complain about it. And then I’ll see that what I’ve created is actually kinda cool and suddenly it becomes soooo worth it.

Synapse

Memories get twisted and warped over time. MRIs are beautiful. In another life, I was a neuropsychologist.

Process:

I love to record videos that usually never see the light of day. I figured what better way than to put allllllll of that archival footage to use than compile it all in one video. Except that would’ve been very boring to watch, so I beat the shit out of it in AfterEffects and warped it to something completely unrecognizable. The final was edited in Premiere and the end result is a jumble of memories that have been twisted and warped over time with a special reference to the strange beauty of MRI scans.

Synapse was created with the intention of being viewed as an immersive art experience on a 270-degree, 18K-resolution digital canvas.

Synapse was selected to be featured and displayed in the 2019 University of Mary Washington Senior Art Exhibition.

(Artists Note: This was not my intended way of displaying it but unfortunately I went to a small university and the funding was limited.)

Artist Statement:

Synapse was created for my Undergraduate Senior Thesis Project in 2019 as a piece to remember the four years I have spent as a student at the University of Mary Washington. I use the past as a way to move forward but I also appreciate the lessons I have learned, the people I have met, the places I have been, and the wide range of feelings experienced to remember those moments.

This is an evolving collage of personal archival footage from each month I spent physically present at the University of Mary Washington that creates a constant tension between the concrete and abstract in order to mimic the way that I process memories

Best Buds

Do you have allergies? Yeah, me too. It’s why I made this multi-screen installation, to enjoy spring without being outside.

Artist Statement:

Featuring 300 flowers, 43 Adobe Premiere video channels, 31 yards, and 2 visits to the Hurley Convergence Center to make sure each clip was perfectly aligned with the large media screen and smaller screens within it, the end result of Best Buds is a stunning multi-channel video of flowers formatted specifically to fit an oddly-shaped screen. It’s like being in a flower field during springtime, minus the allergies!

Process:

Making something more complicated than it needs to be is a common theme for me. I had access to a large screen, made up of many smaller screens, and instead of doing one big video, I decided to make a bunch of separate smaller videos, all playing simultaneously. I recorded flowers in full-bloom with my Nikon D3500 and edited the clips in Premiere.