In Bending Water Into a Heart Shape, a figure-skating jump,
suspended from the ground and
propelled through a turn,
is translated to the floor of a studio and
stretched over 60 minutes.
These altered conditions bring its mechanics onto the picture plane.
Developed over seven months with an internal martial arts
instructor, the project draws from Ba Gua circle walking to ground the body and
condition it to hold form through a long sequence.
In the ice rink videos, two cameras mounted
on a turntable at the center of the ice circle once every sixty seconds,
fixing the rate of rotation
and operating as a counting clock in which time circulates in delay.
The work unfolds across a frozen surface,
a horizonless interior,
and a recording studio,
forming an environment that generates circular momentum,
suppresses spatial orientation, a
nd transmits vibration and resonance through an acoustic chamber.
In this work, the body,
the camera,
and the room organize rotational axis,
depth of field,
and volumetric perception
through reciprocal bodily and photographic processes.
