Pole Field Video Lecture, 2008
a projection series with live commentary that brings together recordings in video, sound and stills accumulated during 90-days of door-to-door "projection walk-ins" along the border of my home country.
BACKGROUND:  In 2006 I was invited to make a work to be screened at Bristol IMAX Dome of Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology in a special project section of 2007 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival. It became Plany Mela, 2007 a hybrid of 90-second, round, Imax film from digital collage and live video. I wanted to earn every pixel of it. It meant expanding every 1/72 of a screen-inch for kilometers by literally leaving the workbench and dragging myself from house to unknown house filtering human, animal and material fragments, listening to them closely to
The shape was to be, from the start, contaminated by reality. The resulting polyphonic structure of rotating rings and planes, often pulling in opposite directions, working and unworking anew, stuck with texture and color samples: crystals, skin and sky shards, fur or blinking lights, documented a process of geographically plotted yet otherwise quite open-ended field investigation.
It could only be produced after all lines connected, all suggestive moments were considered and diagnosed and trace-diagrams drawn as a transposed chronicle of encounters: of enthusiasm, rejection, joy, depression, real and performed feelings surfacing at their own clumsy rhythm