The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building
4K Film with score, 1920 x 1080 HD Video, Collaborative Dance, Photograms, Ceramic Towers, Pine Bleachers
*Installation view from Vachon Gallery at Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University, 2019
The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building drew inspiration from modernist architect Louis Kahn's words as a starting point for examining light as a tool of state control in juvenile prison environments. The work asks how the regulation of light shapes bodies, psychologies, and development. The project brought together a 4K experimental film with live orchestral accompaniment and choreographed dance, large-format photogram prints, ceramic lantern sculptures, and wooden bleachers. Performing in, reflecting, and refracting light, the work makes the political dimensions of illumination physical and felt.
Produced during a yearlong High-Resolution Media Artists Residency at Seattle University's Lee Center for the Arts. The work premiered as a solo exhibition at the Lee Center and traveled to Holding Contemporary Gallery in Portland, OR in March 2019.
photographed by Aunna Moriarty
curated by Molly Mac
second solo exhibition of this work at Holding Contemporary in 2019