Spirit Matter – installation in progress
SPIRIT MATTER is a call for existential awareness: a meeting of the temporal physicality represented by the wolfhound, with the spiritual implications of a world running, with apparent inevitability, towards catastrophic change. The work embraces the wolfhounds ability to live fully in the moment. Angels, in their immortal-superreal state, remind of us of our history and our future. They are beautiful figments, backdrops only, to the act of existence. Time is framed as an eternity, as a single day, and a single moment, experienced simultaneously.
SPIRIT MATTER was conceived in 2019 as a surreal extension of my dystopian RatKind series. Throughout my career, each of my series has spilled fluidly into the next as a layer of meaning added on or pulled away. SPIRIT MATTER draws far back into a canon of companionship with my wolfhounds: their place in my life has been the rule rather than the exception.
INSTALLATION ELEMENTS
(site specific for 20 x 20 foot square room with 21 foot height – the ratio of each wall 16:9 – appropriate for HD video)
VIDEO FILES (4 HD Video files creating 360 degree video loop installation. Includes Audio (stereo). Duration: 11:43 min)
ANGEL IMAGE FILES (7 JPEGS) painted from projection
Astro turf (Trylawn Turf, spray painted with graffiti and florescent paints) – as sound damper
CIRCULAR Wooden table/CHAIR COVERED with astro turf (to hide the amp, mixer, and sub-woofer as well as for the viewer to sit on)
INSTALLATION REQURIEMENTS / NOT INCLUDED
SPEAKERS (2)
8 BLACK LIGHT CEILING MOUNTED SYSTEMS (DEL, AJD ECO UV BAR 50 IR)
media players (4 – Bright Sign / XD 1032 – synchronized by connection to a dedicated ethernet network router)
DEDICATED ETHERNET NETWORK ROUTER
projectors (4 – short throw, HD resolution, 4000 lumens)
AngELs (7 – painted from projection with florescent paint / ROSCO # 150 05779 0128 invisible blue) – see digital file contact sheet at the end of this pdf.