Multi-screen video installation
On an aesthetic level, this work creates a tension between our viewing of a still and a moving image. Each projected image is a video portrait.
However, as this work has developed, it has increasingly revealed a focus on individual diversity.
In many ways, Be sets up the whole ethos of the artist's work, by asking us to stand back and consider more fully the fact of the individual. People often under-estimate individuality; this complexity of thought and emotion which must manage itself within the turmoil that is society.
Be offers the viewer a breathing space to consider the individual as self and as other. The aim is to encourage empathy, for the viewer to consider his own musings and time of reflection. This aspect of the work presents a possible point of transference for intellectual and emotive concerns to develop between the relationship of the work and the observer of the work. The work offers a time to reflect upon the self in an active sense and to consider the ramifications of this within the broader context of self, society and other.