Virtual Corporeality

Virtual Corporeality (2022)

Stills from 5 min 37 second installation

2022

The work traces a movement between elements held in tension. The mineral stillness of stone and ice, the transient heat of a body and the distant persistence of the sun. These materials appear without hierarchy, each occupying its own duration. All taking place around the singular orange orb. This color together with the perfect circular shape communicate something deeply familiar. The necessity for our existence, our earliest object of worship, the star we dance around in the void.

Blood enters as motion. It travels across temperature and terrain, warming and cooling, visible and then absorbed. It does not resolve the distance between forces, but inhabits it. In a constant movement it runs from warmth in to the ice and snow to dissolve back in to the earth. In that interval, the human scale becomes perceptible.