Vista

Originally a three-channel video installation with sound, 2002. Single-channel video, 2008

Vista is an exploration of physical, psychological, and emotional space played out in the open landscape. “In Vista, the camera teases out traumas residing in a landscape, yet leaves its precise story untold. Vista traverses invisible dangers in the seeming innocence of nature and offers as consolation spaces simultaneously claustrophobic and protected." A red veil covering the camera constricts the vista but creates an interior. The camera traces a path through a confined, pristine labyrinth; on the soundtrack, a woman whispers a poem by a Dutch mystic that envisions what it would be like to occupy a vast space. Threat and possibility coexist in the sounds of a body running, a momentary picture of possibly infinite space, and the artist’s reading of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.”