Words About my Film

The work is in response to my film In loving memory of (2023). It is a passive performative piece as the text written on the pages degrade with each page that the viewer may take. The work mimics a tombstone where the engraved name of a loved one weathers away in time: the film’s text, like a living body, transforms with and in time.
A clock on top of the stack is a paper weight, binding the stack of papers in a timeline. The duration of this work is dependent on the visitors: with every page they take, the text decays and eventually disappears. The philosophical notion that the perceiver decays with the perceived. The clock marks the time of the viewer. As well, it establishes the timeline of the film. A film that cannot be repeated. One that mimics the ephemerality of memory.

In my creative process, the material is a collaborator that has the ability to exceed my imagination. As I try not to use it but to listen to it—it would be a lie to say that I have no control over it—I say that this is a collaboration. Also, some of my work is material-driven because I do not have the drive to ‘say’ something; I allow materials to say what they want to say. Art in the form of ‘meaning’ is always in flux. In my opinion, there is nothing to understand in Art, the idea is to be, to simply be able to see, to be able to breathe, listen, and the desire to just live.