Searching for the Aurora  (2007)  This piece is based on the poetic prose by G.C.Waldrep entitled “We Searched for the Aurora”.  The video sculpture that resulted from this inspiration presents a single trip through a dark tunnel to light, letting the audio suggestions ferment in the visitor’s mind.  The projection is through a “lens” of an old television frontispiece with gilded edges, blurred by age and held by a reluctant wooden tripod. The sculptural element adds an aspect of voyeurism through media from the early days of reproduction to the implications of the piece.

The old TV glass with guilded edges (and rubbed with a paste) sits in an ancient wooden tripod, evoking early 20th century modes of seeing/ recording natural sources.

I was fascinated with the poem and found that simple imagery from the Headlands complimented it well.  I used the formal structure of projecting through a lens to amplify the searching imagery, which also allowed me to encircle the visualization of the Aurora concept.  The old TV glass with guilded edges (and rubbed with a paste) sits in an ancient wooden tripod, evoking early 20th century modes of seeing/ recording natural sources.


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