Melinda Barlow revisits Mary Lucier's video installation works dealing with habitation in relation to place and time. In Lucier's installations, the house stands in as a site of intimacy and instability, representing the "impermanence of shelter" within the natural landscape and that of our own selves.

The medium of video installation lends itself well to the interplay between memory and home, where one must learn to view and experience what eventually decays.