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Foundation: Spatial Dynamics

Deb Coolidge

Spring 2014

 

I started with the helixing pattern in the skeleton. It appeared to be intrinsic to the skeletal structure, and I was interested by how it remained consistent with itself yet moved through and around the skeleton. I was interested in the apparent potential for the helix pattern to go on forever, and was amused that literally, in the very fiber of its being, it was composed of smaller strings of helixes. I decided to shoot the content of the various scenes as ones involved with representation, recursive awareness, and replication - filming the act of filming, putting ourselves in frames, photo-copying, drawing, and some other methods of the same token. The video became partly about mutation as well; kind of a question that interjects in the midst of all this replication and asks if replication is inherently imperfect. And if that should concern us (robust genetic diversity always theoretically helps a population). In the end, one can make a larger analogy to the process of art-making as well, as all art is created by consumption followed by production; reappropriation, synthesis.
 

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