Video Artwork from the Momentum Series, 2019
Momentum: a hauntology
Self-portrait as a trapped moment in time
A state of simultaneous being and not-being
Which after all, is something that video allows us
I am a shadowy figure, almost a silhouette or ghost
On a winter walk along the liminal space
Where land, sea and sky meet
The video plays back and forth, stuck in a time loop
Like the momentum of a pendulum swing
Never quite reaching my destination
Slow-motion capture creates small, lossy artefacts
The scene is interrupted by glitches
Accidents and errors in the video encoding
Disrupting one reality with another, broken one
Reminding us of the digital medium and all its frailties
Of data flow, transmission process
Compression, decompression
And entropic tendencies
