TO HOLD CLOSE
2024
Collaboration with Lauren Kalman for the Kresge Artist Fellows Portrait series
Series Producer: Donald Harrison
2:37, HD videoHD single channel video,
Director / Camera / Edit
A sculptor sits at a throwing wheel shaping a large clay pot as the camera floats above her and then descends into the void of the vessel. This short film was a collaboration with artist Lauren Kalman as part of the Kresge Artist Fellows portrait series produced by Donald Harrison. Lauren and I developed the concept around key themes in this body of work which she calls “To Have and to Hold.” Derived from traditional wedding vows, this series of her work explores embodied responses to loss of control and the desire for human connection. In this work she carefully forms the vessels over several days and then imprints them with her body leaving a permanent distortion of the vessel's original form and a lasting impression of the absent body. The film reflects this process of duration of formation and the persistence of loss.
Screenings
Premiere: Detroit Public Television, Spotlight on Detroit, March 2024
Collaboration with Lauren Kalman for the Kresge Artist Fellows Portrait series
Series Producer: Donald Harrison
2:37, HD videoHD single channel video,
Director / Camera / Edit
A sculptor sits at a throwing wheel shaping a large clay pot as the camera floats above her and then descends into the void of the vessel. This short film was a collaboration with artist Lauren Kalman as part of the Kresge Artist Fellows portrait series produced by Donald Harrison. Lauren and I developed the concept around key themes in this body of work which she calls “To Have and to Hold.” Derived from traditional wedding vows, this series of her work explores embodied responses to loss of control and the desire for human connection. In this work she carefully forms the vessels over several days and then imprints them with her body leaving a permanent distortion of the vessel's original form and a lasting impression of the absent body. The film reflects this process of duration of formation and the persistence of loss.
Screenings
Premiere: Detroit Public Television, Spotlight on Detroit, March 2024
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The intention to nurture
the desire
to hold close
the ability
to smother
a merging
of body and object
presence
and loss
The intention to nurture
the desire
to hold close
the ability
to smother
a merging
of body and object
presence
and loss
Cargo Collective 2017 — Frogtown, Los Angeles