Works on VIDEO
An experimental visual essay on California freeways and the changes of modern technological society on the landscape and the human psyche. The narration essay was written after a car drive down to Los Angeles from San Francisco and excerpts from my journal writing. What started with a visual motif - a gathering of images of freeways and traffic and architecture - became a rant of poetic musings and drifting thoughts. What was important to me was to create a character, a personae of my mind, me but not me, who struggles to know his place in this shifting modern world. As with much of my work in the 2000s I was interested in creating a character and a narrative that would touch upon autobiography and fiction as a way of getting to some truth.