Escaping Gravity consists of projected video onto two piles of faux rocks. One sitting on the floor and the other suspended directly above it upside down, they represent cairns or trail markers. The video projected onto the two piles, is mirrored from front to back and top to bottom. The abstract nature sounds mix with a script that includes deconstructions of 27 poets who have written about nature, time, aging and loss. Escaping Gravity represents fragments of my journey to free myself from gravitational pulls both physical and emotional. It explores my shifting relationship with nature, and my shifting relationship with myself. The projected video references the life cycle of birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth, as well as the major signals or “trail markers” of our current environmental issues such as: air and water quality, soil and forest conditions, energy use and waste. We find ourselves at the cross-roads as we enter the decay phase of the cycle. Will we be able to escape the pull gravity?
