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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
What makes a tree, a tree? This series of eight short videos explores this question by focusing on the same urban tree, a large Black Willow situated between a busy pedestrian walkway and a construction site. With deeply grooved bark and a twisted trunk, it bears scars from lost branches, supports parasitic plants and has holes… ⊕
Unclear Cuts uses cellphone footage of clear-cut land shot by tree planters that is further compressed in transit. This becomes emphasized in the manner used to manually stabilize the imagery. The videos layer and accumulate on screen into a messy, entanglement of ruined forests that hints at the complexity of change. Also… ⊕
Inspired by the space-age design and utopian aspirations of the 1970's, Overshadow 2 creates the illusion of a strange eclipse using images of contemporary life shot by the artist's teenage daughter. The audio score, by Debashis Sinha, creates a celestial soundscape that gradually layers and distorts with intermittent… ⊕
This video responded to Debashis Sinha's audio titled: End credits for a film not yet made (1) from 2016. I've taken his prompt by having the credits scroll upwards and gradually fill the white screen so it fades to black.
Based on a continuous shot of an institutional ceiling that slowly drifts down to reveal a window and clock. Time moves with questionable uniformity and almost nothing happens out the window. Eventually, a hint to the context is given before the loop begins again. Also available as a looping installation