About the work - In contemporary North American society there is an emphasis on rationality and reason, yet the main vehicle for this, the mind, is limited, highly dependent on memory, and filled with gaps and filters. 

The footage from 1973 and 1973 (When you grow up...) was appropriated from a mental hygiene film entitled When You Grow Up produced in 1973 that was commonly screened in school auditoriums and classrooms of the time - about the suitable career options in the working world for young boys and girls. Re-watching this film as an adult made me curious about embedded information that lays dormant in our memories but that still may influence the way we think in the present.  The video uses blurriness, omission and fragmentation to push the recognizable imagery in the original footage into abstract forms where the meaning becomes malleable and the viewer's interpretations are continually shifting.  It was then rear-projected through translucent plexi glass where the filtration and manipulation of information is simultaneous with the viewer's experience of it, much in the same way that the world around us gets filtered, reconfigured and categorized through our senses and our brains seamlessly without any conscious effort or awareness.  Maya, the title of the second installation borrows its name from the Hindu concept for the ever-changing illusory world experienced by our senses. The gallery wall was completely covered in wood paneling - a popular veneer nostalgic of rec rooms and basements from the 70s and 80s.  The viewer can look through a peephole and see the abstracted video of light reflecting off of water, which after a moment becomes a malleable abstract blob or form that alludes to consciousness and the idea of thought itself. Upon rewatching the movie Blade Runner I was struck by how fragments of the movie were completely lost in my memory and how parts of the dialogue seemed to magically find their way out of my mouth as I watched. I tried to recreate a room from ovelapping memories of tv / family rooms that I might have first watched the movie in. Furnished with furniture and objects from second hand stores a new old room was constructed. It is said that you can never step in the same river twice. A movie, as a collection of packaged experiences exists now in almost the exact form that it did then and is used to illuminate the distance between my perception of things then versus my perception of things now.