Multi-channel video installation
Sound by Josephine Wiggs

PARA site asks viewers to consider how storytelling can take place phenomenologically, in the absence of cinematic narrative.  Entering the installation, the viewer is confronted with a series of fragmentary cinematic loops — a floating house, a dying insect, a drive on an empty highway at night, murky underwater images — which individually evoke displacement, loss, and of longing.  Collectively, these fragments hint at an unrealized tale that exists in the interstices between one loop and the next.  As the viewer moves through the installation, and the image-events emerge and fade from view, the temporal separation between these cinematic moments gradually emerges as positive space in its own right, becoming the site in which the viewer’s own imagination transforms the fragments into a highly personalized meaning.