Stuart Moore & Kayla Parkerwort/wall/water
2004 16mm triptych loops x 3 variable lengths (silent) Exquisite moments held in the mind's eye, replay the feeling of being in an 'other place', transported, dislocated. Caught forever in the present, wort/wall/water looks back to a time past, and forward to the future. Looking at the work, the viewer is aware of the hypnotic progression of images on the three screens: at times the three separate pieces can be seen, sometimes the same piece is shown in sync across all screens. The viewer becomes aware also of the gallery space itself, through the window of the world beyond, and can contemplate their own sense of place.
The first of the three pieces 'wort' reveals a shifting, flickering light across leaves of navelwort; the second piece 'wall' looks at the top of a crumbling wall, radiating the heat of the day, and beyond to the rhythmic movement of ripened grass and a glimpse of turquoise sky. In the third piece 'water', a fountain reaches the top of its jet, and tumbles back, caught in perpetual motion.
The three sequences were filmed using a Beaulieu R16 camera at the end of a late summer afternoon at Mount Edgcumbe in south east Cornwall. A loop was created from each of the three 16mm film sequences, and from these the movement cycles for the three screens. |
