Water Leak – Video Projection into Oil Can Sitting on Train Baggage Scale

The installation Water Leak involves an aerial video projection of rushing glacier waters into an oil/juice drum, which is sitting on the baggage scale of the gallery’s original status as a train station. The overflow of the projection appears to be leaking from the bottom of the can positioned on the bed of the baggage scale fixed in this converted railway station. Visitor action is engaged in looking into the intimate space of the can to see contained video images of rushing glacier water, a reference to the intersection of personal and public global narratives.

The documentation is at the Rails End Gallery, Haliburton, Ontario, and was part of the solo exhibition titled Ecology of Narrative Space. The title refers to the intersection of personal and public experiences and our filtered perceptual memories that affect identity in the present. The exhibition also showed twenty-four photomontage prints from the series titled Arctic Crisis Project, Parts 1 & 2,

Inspirations: In my view, art is biographical or self-referential to the Artist. Inspirations for this body of work are an interwoven layering of in-and-out filtered personal memories of perceived experiences. These span a lifetime that absorbs and naturally appropriates while reinventing personal meaning and identity in the present. Just as in these interwoven and ever-shifting filtered memories, no element of the photomontage images, Arctic, New York City or journals, or those of the video projection installation, is the narrative. Further, one’s identity is not about any one element, geo political or cultural memory, rather it is the simultaneity of their interwoven narrative threads where the ever shifting present affects in-and-out personal and public consciousness. As in the existentialist perspective, “the whole is greater than the sum of parts”.