Pool Art Show Piece – Motion & Mood 2006
This past week, I showed my work at DIVA Pool Art Fair. It was a good sized crowd and all the artists featured their video and digital art on their laptops. Unique and fuss-free affair, I had some great reception to several of my pieces, including the one featured in this post, MOTION & MOOD 2006. I shot this on HDv and DV, and composed the music. Its an exploration of the motion of landscapes and bodies.
Interesting point about the video – it features the Cape Cod shoreline the weekend after Hurricane Katrina, and the waves were very high for the Atlantic. The video also features Butoh dancers, a form of dance called the “cultural fallout of atomic bomb” and “dance of the unmovables”, created in Japan post-WWII. I coupled the two kinds of imagery of beauty post-pain, post-trauma. The branch sculpture on the beach was something I came upon, not created, and its anonymous and ominous beauty captivated me.
Peace,
Melissa
