Now and Then

Artist, curator, and friend Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya contacted a group of artists with a prompt for an exhibition titled Now and Then at el Patio d mi Casa in 2018. The prompt was asking us to create a 2 min video exploring the ideas we were thinking about in our creative practice. We also need to submit the work next to an older piece of work.

When thinking about the proposed idea of "Now and Then," I instantly thought of time and how we organize it. How do we keep time without phones and clocks? We relied on our senses, our environment, and our bodies. How can I relate time to the body? I was thinking a lot about my own body in my work and the joy I have in the physicality of making with my body. How is time internalized in the human body? The first thing I thought of was the breath. I decided to record myself breathing. By using the body as a landscape lying flat on the floor and cropping the frame, I am attempting to abstract the form. Keeping with my interest in space and moments between abstraction and figure, rocking in that ambiguity, I cut the image not to tell you exactly what was happening. I'm not particularly eager to feed you an image, and I want you to slow down and investigate. Much of my work comes back to an interior examination and using myself as a model without dealing with self-portraiture directly.