Video installation
Standpoint Gallery, London 1999

Shot on super-8 and transferred to video
3.45min, 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.

Supported by William Brooker Scholarship /
Wimbledon School of Art 1997