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Show Statement
Borrowing imagery from classical religion, mythology, and folklore such as the Tree of Life and Sleeping Beauty, these two films work together as chapters recounting the creation of humankind in a fantastical manner. The first chapter Fallen, depicts an Eve-like character's introduction to technology and the divine consequences of this meeting. The second chapter, Rise, resumes many years later, long after the female character's first meeting with technology. Here she has transformed from her original Eve-like state of naked innocence into a clothed mysterious being. In place of her original naivety our character now holds a cryptic knowledge of the natural world often feared and marked as witchcraft. As a result of this transformation the two characters of machine and human have switched their roles of protagonist and antagonist.
In both chapters the meeting of the two characters results in a dramatic shift in the environment. The cause and ramifications of these events remains ambiguous. By writing the story of how we have come to be, the authors of history have created stories and myth that reflect their morals, values and ultimately their objectives. My intention has been to portray a creation story that is aware of its fictional origin in an attempt to better understand the subjective nature of the authoring of history as it is contradicted, fought over, and continuously reshaped.
Funded by Potrland Oregon's Regional Arts & Culture Council the two films were conceived to run together at PDX Contemporary Gallery in December of 2007. Both films feature the music of Ethan Rose and sculpture design by Kari Merkl.
Regional Arts & Culture Council
PDX Contemporary
Ethan Rose
Kari Merkl
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