"Objet D'art" 6 min. 2004
Why don't we see the blanks between frames of film, or video for that matter? Some attribute it to Persistence of Vision. Others to the fact that the black is a short enough moment of Nothing that we don't register its passing. Objet D'art embraces the pause, the black, the moments of nothing, and uses it to possibly give for those who care to see, the after-image. Starring the Nelson and Dragan family. Special thanks to Paul Marek, a hairdresser in New Jersey. He is currently undergoing chemotherapy for prostate cancer. The repeated gesture in the video of the exposed neck, the tilt of the head, the ultimate reveal of a face unadorned by a defining hair-do, speaks to the dream of having with us forever those who no longer are in our lives. This was the inspiration for this piece. Paul washes our hair at the edges of the frame, as we will one day feel the tremor of his touch when he is no longer with us.
Gobolux (Andrew Nelson and Kim Su Theiler)
www.gobolux.com
