HEART STUDY VIDEO CLIP 2006
Cinematography by Rob Sullivan and Edited by Zena Sfeir.
The footage shows a few works from the Neon and Salt Heart Series shown in NYC during 2006.
The Heart Series was completed over a period starting in the winter of 2000 and continuing until 2005. The neon and salt works are made up from three dimensional glass neon tube armatures which have a salt crystalline structure grown over the top forming a white body mass. The crystalline form took two and a half years to grow and took hundreds of hours of rotation to build up the surface. Many of the works did not make it through to completion, as the process was complex and as yet untested. The only survivors of the series are two heads and six hearts forms.
The light you see pulsates from within the salt crystalline structure from the two sections of neon tube. The light is constantly switching from one side of the object to the other (moving side to side), this creates a mixture of omitting and refracting light simultaneously. The human eye & brain has no perception of this kind of light movement in nature and so interprets this changing pattern of light source as the form contracting and expanding, giving rise to the sense of it physically beating.
The light source is alive in the sense it has indeterminable life span. It leaves the viewer directly aware that each time the work is switched on, they control and are directly responsible for the preservation and effectively the life or death of the work.
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