Site-specific Video Installation, Los Angeles LAX airport, 2010-2018



A camera pans 360 degrees around a grassy marsh and pond in New York harbor, over time
revealing both close up and more distant views. Repeated temporal layering and compositing
of the video creates a general visual impression of a poetic blurring of both  time and space.

The work at LAX unfolded along a meandering string of 29 video screens hanging above the
waiting area of the arrival hall. Two full panoramic cycels of the marsh site were visible at any
given moment across all screens, with the increased blurring of the temporal element moving
from the right to the left. The panoramas, while visually matched from screen to screen, time-
wise were off, an illusion constructed in editing. Each screen, moving from left to right, shows
an earlier point in time, as recorded by a single camera, sweeping 360 degrees via a motor.

VIEW was part of "See Change," featuring 17 original, site-specific artworks, located in the
lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles LAX airport.

Thanks to curator Anne Bray and all fellow artists participating in the project.