Shot on super-8 and transferred to video 3.45min, 1997 Video installation
Standpoint Gallery,London 1999 William Brooker Scholarship / Wimbledon
School of Art 1997.
A camera scans repeatedly a vast Canadian iced over riverbed. Periodically
an Asian boat is superimposed, drifting in and out of frame and serving
as vehicle, as kitchen and as shop to its owner. The vast landscapes and
ongoing camera movements reflect an ongoing journey and an absence of
boundaries. It explores that which Walter Benjamin has called the "art
of straying", a deliberate practice of getting lost, both literally and
metaphorically. A wandering of this kind is a refuge to the Self, which
identifies with a nomadic kind of experience. (Project funded by the William
Brooker Scholarship) .
Installation of Leaving Home at the Standpoint Gallery, London.
Still from Leaving Home