SELECTED SHORTS
During the length of the project, trail cameras were placed at various sites, the footage retrieved the next year. Below is a selection of short videos made from the project’s still image archive, selected documentation compressed and arranged to make visible the changing conditions of light and spatial relationships that largely occur at scales imperceptible to us: the advance and retreat of shadow; the movement of the planet along the ecliptic plane; the cyclical lightening and darkening of the skyline; and perpetually rising and setting sun.
night breathing, timelapse animation, 00:42
Looking across the Pinto Basin from the Hexie Mountains, this work charts ten days of rising & falling darkness in ten breaths.
basin & range beats three degrees along the ecliptic, timelapse animation, 00:08
Alternating views from basin to range, this piece uses images taken three days apart at the same time (6:34 & 17:00 PST) to animate the sun’s changing path along the ecliptic plane.
the desert draws a breath in cardinal directions, timelapse animation, 00:12
Drawing the project’s archive of footage, this piece tracks the light from dawn to dusk and back again in four breaths through the four cardinal directions.
Drawn from footage at two camera sites facing each other, this time lapse covers three weeks of daylight on the Pinto Basin & Hexie Mountains. The work manipulates three screens to create the suggestion the sun was rising from both directions. One camera placed atop Pinto Mountain faced SW (small screen, lower three-quarters), another camera shot NE from lower elevation, across the length of the basin (larger screen). A third split screen above the center insert (smaller screen, upper quarter) reiterates the sky’s movement above the basin in the larger screen. In the background, real-time audio charts four minutes of walking through the desert.