The Liminal Series
2004-2006
VIDEO
Single channel digital video installation
Total series length 24 min 52 sec, silent

"...dissolving and rearranging...awesome...hypnotic..." --The New York Times

The series is composed of nine animations inspired by nature’s scales, from the minuteness of subatomic particles to the immensity of an expanding universe. Also created based on the paradigm of evolution, each successive animation builds upon the complexities of its predecessors by compressing, enlarging, and/or embedding previous ones into future ones. I discovered that manipulating digital imagery repeatedly over different generations produced distortions, such as irregular time lapses, pixelation, and color artifacts (the introduction of color to what began as a black-and-white work.) As I worked on the series I decided it would end when the next animation was distorted to the point of graphic breakdown. 

The Liminal Series (24:52) consists of: “Liminal Prelude” (1:23); “Renewal” (2:32); “Embedded Shifts” (1:25); “Liminal Division” (2:52); “Renewal Shifts” (2:58); “Recession” (2:24); “Dual Divide” (2:52); “Renewal Dissolve” (2:55); “Recession Flares” (2:47)

Made possible in part by the support of The MacDowell Colony and Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

Now available for sale through Tribeca Film Institute's Reframe Collection website.

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