Sparkle Palm Island

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Sparkle Palm Island is based on original footage shot in Bora Bora. At 3:30pm every day the sun made the water around the “palm island” glitter in a crazy way. This video shows the changing light and interplay of water and sand and palm trees. The near-monochrome palette and surrealistic effect of the water reflections help convey the other-worldly experience.

I was trained as a traditional painter and never thought I would use new media tools but I feel more like I am painting now, using digital video, than I did using oil paints. Each work involves adventure and many unexpected and often serendipitous moments. In this way, the work channels the action painters, who engaged physically in the environment and the moment, with any instance of a final piece being only one of many possibilities.

The symmetrical patterning that I use satisfies a basic perceptual and aesthetic desire for order by reducing the overdose of complexity that video capture can confer. Celebrating the same philosophy as the action painters and surrealists, my creative process thrives on the vagaries of real life environments as well as the automated computational functions that create unpredictable features and arrangements. The results largely erase the Western linear perspective of the camera are sometimes reminiscent of psychedelic art. Modern Painters/BLOUIN ART INFO has described the work as “dazzling and hypnotic…provoking an experience of dislocation.”