Bonne Chance
Filmed at the Bonneville Salt Flats, a vast, far reaching salt desert which serves as a land speed record test ground and for mining salt and chemicals and using my shadow and a butterfly (Colias philodice) as motifs, the video explores concepts of the here and now, the relationship of change and time and the self therein, and touches on the human made climate catastrophe through an intra- and intertextual elliptical narrative.
The narrative is carried by a voice over and electronic sounds generated by a text-to-sound AI program and is accompanied by animated subtitles.
The video is accompanied by cocoon-like sculptures made from salt shaped like double sided fists that each contain a ceramic core shaped like an eternity knot. The hanging sculptures form a Newton’s pendulum that, once activated, breaks open the fists piece by piece, with every swing, revealing the ceramic knot while the salt crust falls to the floor, changing the sculpture and its movement irreversibly.