Video Art
These are long pieces I’ve made over time.
Montauk 2012
Raising two little girls in NYC, and mostly out of work taking care of them, I found moments of joy filming the girls on these long train rides to Montauk. Some of this taken in total boredom. Ordinary days can become magical, surprising, and overwhelmingly joyful. Put together, it’s a string of moments that show how to find the spaces between, and illuminate another world of wonderment which always by our side…we just need to see it.
Tourists 2000
If I’m going to hang out in St. Marks Square in Venice, you know the only thing that will quell my boredom is filming the spectacle of pigeons and tourists and their unquenched desire to interact with them. This is a study of our relationship to these winged Italian pigeons, which unlike New York ones, they seemed gleeful to entertain us.
Love Illusions 2002
Jamie and I were the subjects of show for the travel channel where they film a couple experiencing an exotic place. They took us to Rangiroa, Tahiti. They didn’t pay us but in return left us for two days to exploit all the booze and sea they had to offer. We had been together about five years and later would go on to have two children, and then break up after 25 years. Feeling uncertain about if he loved me, and insecure over where we were going, afraid I would be hurt…I made a video about it. Going underwater was my way of getting away…. falling into the sea and escaping what was inevitably going to be the end of us.
Road Trip 2003
In 2003 I flew out to Los Angeles, to do a cross country drive with Jamie back to New York, where we were going to move in together and start our lives again. We missed New York after 9/11 and wanted to be home with family, friends, and art. It took us five days to drive across, so I made a video about it.
Coo
Kasia was born on December 31, 2006. This is her a week later. Her eyes are reaching for the new lights, the new sounds, the new faces. It is the beginning, before she knew what anything was or if anything existed. This is the mind of a new person. You cannot say that society doesn’t shape us. We must continue to explore our expanding universe and never lose the excitement about discovering new things.
The Self
Angelica was born in 2010 in a world of filming yourself as a piece of art is in full force. This is her first video selfie, but also symbolizes the insatiable need to self document ourselves as a social experiment. I wonder what I would have done with a camera at two years old.
The Little Fish
Playing underwater with a bunch of little fish. 2016