Scott and Eddie (2005)
One-channel video showing a character mimicking Eddie Murphy's "Ice Cream Man" stand-up routine from Delirious.
One-channel video, one-channel audio, color, 2 min 30 sec, image dimensions and installation details variable.
Solo Shoot (video 2003–04; photographs 2003–ongoing)
Synchronized two-channel video installation. The left-hand sequence depicts a character telling a story about having starred in porn shoots, and the right-hand sequence shows a roaming pan of the bedroom he occupies. The audio is out of synch and gradually becomes synchronized at the end of the sequence.
Two-channel video, one-channel audio, color, 4min 35 sec, image dimensions and installation details variable.
Exhibited: Solo Shoot, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas
Terminal Portrait (2002)
One-channel video projection onto constructed illuminated screen. The footage depicts a character talking about a video of himself being hung by his friends. A line of pale gray vinyl text is applied around the gallery walls. This text is transcribed from an earlier take, so is similar to the audio, but differs slightly in content and structure.
One-channel video, one-channel audio, color, 2 min 25 sec, projected image 40" x 70". Installation details variable.
Exhibited: Sundown Apex, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas.
The footage (a long camera pan) depicts an unresolved relationship between a character inside a car singing a section from the opera Tosca and a second male standing in front of the car shouting.
One-channel video, one-channel audio, color, 2 min 30 sec..
Exhibited: FotoFest 2002, Houston, Texas.
Three Scripts and Outside Voices (2001)
Two-channel video projection onto two light-boxes and wall. The first sequence depicts two people standing on chairs in front of a street scene; the two people on chairs are projected onto a light-box, while the street scene is projected onto the adjacent wall. The second sequence depicts three day-workers sitting in the back of a pickup truck; this sequence is played in reverse so that the workers appear to be traveling backwards in the direction that they are facing. Within each sequence there are scripted dialogues and over-voices. In the installation, the voices overlap between the two soundtracks.
Unsynchronized two-channel video installation, two-channel audio, color, 180 sec and 126 sec, installation dimensions variable, projected images 60" x 80" and 40.5" x 72".
Exhibited: Core 2001, Glassell School of Art, MFA,H, Houston, Texas; and Two Stages, Hamilton Artist Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Series of twelve photographs. Each photograph depicts tire marks left on the track/street corners after the Texaco Grand Prix, Houston.
C-prints, 24" x 30" each.
Exhibited: Sundown Apex, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Two Porsches (2001)
Two-channel video projection onto identical blue-filtered light-boxes adjoined at 90°. The footage depicts slow-motion recordings of two different Porsche drivers removing their hands from the steering wheels of their moving cars.
Unsynchronized two-channel video projection (16mm mastered onto DVD), two-channel audio, color, 65 and 75 seconds, projected images each 19" x 25"; light-boxes each 19" x 25" x 4.75".
Light-boxes: aluminum, blue-filtered fluorescent lights, MDF, plastic.
Exhibited: Two Porsches, Sleeper, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scapes, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas.
One-channel video projection onto a blue-filtered light-box assembly. The footage depicts a slow-motion recording of a narrow vertical life-size section of a walking crowd.
One-channel video installation (16mm film mastered onto laser disc), silent; b/w, running time 13 minutes,
Light-box assembly: stainless steel, blue-filtered fluorescent light, sandblasted glass.
Dimensions: Projected video 90" x 5"; light-box 76" x 6.5" x 3.5".
Exhibited: As It Seems To Be, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Two physically identical internally lit units. The units are mounted oposite each other at the entrance to a building. The bright white light from one unit overpowers the pale blue light from the second unit and makes it look disfunctional/unlit. The blue light is however visible within the shadow of a passing viewer, when their shadow obstructs the white light, revealing the internal blue light of the second unit.
Light-box assembly: stainless steel, blue-filtered fluorescent light, sandblasted glass.
Dimensions: Projected video 90" x 5"; light-box 76" x 6.5" x 3.5".
Exhibited: Cluster, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
One-channel video projection onto blue-filtered light-box. The footage depicts a slow-motion recording of the torso section of a crowd as they walk past. The black and white video is rendered as blue and white, the blue backlight fills in the dark parts of the image. When a gallery viewer walks between the projection and screen, their shadow also reveals the blue, backlight and they join the projected space of the walkers.
16mm film mastered onto laser disc; running time 13 minutes, b/w, silent, projected image 19" x 144"; light-box 21" x 146" x 9".
Light-Box: MDF, blue-filtered fluorescent light, acrylic, Lexan.
Exhibited: Atopia, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
