"Tierra Sin Males" is a spinning, spiraling, fracturing
video piecewhich moves both with and against
expectations or known laws of physics.
A large glass globe rolls tensely back and forth on a
track over a central fulcrum. Embedded within the
sphere is an image which may call forth numerous
references, Attic, Etruscan ... but is in fact the
reflection of a highway sign near the Mexico/US
border warning drivers not to hit immigrants as they
flee across the road, surely one of the most disturbing
images of our times. It rolls up, catching slightly over
the edge, contorts, distorts.
The piece is digitally generated. Within the context
of a room, the object and shadows move, shift.
They spin, hit, spin back faster, hesitate, pivot,
continue. The piece is accompanied by a deep
reverberating sound track, the sounds taken from
the real world.
In revolving tension, the piece hovers in
equilibrium/disequilibriumprecarious location and
dislocation, extending questions in a physical
and possible world.
