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Movies
Garden Fate : Files are fairly large, so it may take a couple of seconds to load.
Microscopic Love: The Intimate Fluids Through A Microscope, a series of time-lapse film segments of seminal fluid, blood and vaginal secretion viewed through a microscope and macro-lens. This is small segment running about a minute that is part of the longer film which runs about 6 minutes in legnth. It was meant to be viewed at an extremely small size and includes sounds from a medical website of an irregular heartbeat and a patient with bronchitis breathing.
Installation Gallery
Garden Fate is an installation comprised of dirt, stones, logs, rusted objects, bones, refuse from Jersey City waterfront, mulch, gourds, vegetables, mushrooms, moss, branches, green peppers, flowers, grass, broadleaf plantain, field bindweed, hedge bindweed, morning glory, purple basil, garlic mustard, Virginia creeper, common pigweed, ragweed, tree of heaven, etc......
Garden Fate was started in early June in the storefront window of a building in Downtown Jersey City. The building is set to be demolished by this summer and appears as part of a larger exhibition called Demolition.
This carefully constructed "garden" will only exist for a month or so, and the intention is to see a sudden burst of forced nature, a lush and overgrown greening of the window. The garden will be left to be demolished along with the building. As the weeks have gone by new plants and elements are added which relate much like a story, with a beginning, a lush middle, a climatic red phase, then a dying phase. When faced with eminent death, life rushes forward, manically catching it's last gasp before the end. That is what I hope to capture with the fast growing weeds and grasses, the struggling vines latching onto anything nearby and the bell peppers that turn bright red before finally turning black and rotting. The public that normally walks by these windows will be able to view the drama unfold. But a time-lapse camera is also set up in the garden to capture the growth and changes. Different angles and stages will be recorded creating a final film of the fate of the Garden.