The Tracks series explores the compositional architecture of the moving image by exploiting films captured in special cases. Specifically, these films exploit the uniform, linear motion of a moving train and the passing landscape. The relationship between adjacent frames of a video file are both temporal and structural, allowing spacial-temporal manipulations. Displaying hundreds of frames (or portions of frames) in succession on a curved path, the artists produces malleable, extended landscapes that spill across the video surface.
Filmed during a working vacation in Berlin during the summer of 2018, the Transport Loops project documented the grafittied landscape of the S-Bahn Rapid Rail system in and around the city. The raw footage was then transformed and recontextualized in 2021.
Works from the Berlin Loops Series have been screened in 2021 at the following film festivals: Karnavati International Film Festival (India), Golden Sparrow International Film Festival (India), G Underground Film Festival (Australia), SoCal Film Awards (US), On Art (Poland), SHORT to the Point (Romania), Near Nazareth Festival (Israel), and South Film and Arts Academy Festival (Chile).
Constructed from appropriated video produced by the Chicago Transit Authority, these films reveal the track and passing landscape in real time as the trains move into and out of the city. Making one revolution every minute, the last minute of the past is preserved as a persistent image on the screen, revealing the scenery and the track configuration from a camera on the front of the train. The videos create a tree-ring-esque image that constantly changes as the trains move across the suburbs, into the city, and underground.
Filmed during a working vacation in Durango, Colorado in the summer of 2019, these TRACKS video works documented the landscapes of the San Juan National Forest during a stream engine powered, narrow gauge railroad ride to Silverton, Colorado. This historic, tourist railroad preserves the era of steam-powered transportation during the mining boom in the Colorado Rockies.
Filmed in Strasburg Pennsylvania during the summer of 2019, these videos document the landscapes of Amish Country in Lancaster, PA. By sampling a thin vertical slice of the video frames, the landscape is reconstructed into a ribbon that loops and winds across the screen.