Julian's Final

Statement:
We’ve spent the entire semester playing with the dimension of time. We’ve used media that incorporates this fourth dimension in a more literal sense. This is to say that video and sound fill a physical frame of time. Here I am combining these four media into video and audio to convey yet another dimension, that of the greater notion of time. This larger idea of time, similar to fate, is a more abstract and emotional idea. Most of us are confronted with the reality of time as we grow up, reflecting on the life we’ve lived thus far. The most formidable years of my adolescence have been my later teenage years as I face a fork in the road between a foreign and professional world and the familiar innocence of childhood. But I often ask myself where my loyalty really lies.
This video is intended to incorporate all of these ideas into one. A man’s hollow silhouette sporting a sweatshirt, jacket, and Ipod walks up to a mirror but his reflection does not match his silhouette. The naked reflection slowly dresses himself in preppy business clothes as the hooded figure strips down to nothing. This is meant to represent one life giving way to another, childhood being stripped naked by adulthood. In another sense, though, it begs the questions which is more real; a shadow or a reflection? On a further note, the entire piece is nothing more than a projection onto a screen filmed through a camera adding yet another dimension of false reality. Meanwhile we hear the sound of a heartbeat, representing the life and vigor of youth. Toward the middle of the piece a ticking clock meshes with the heartbeat. These two differing rhythms fight with each other, falling in sync and back out again until the clock finally wins. Much like the character in the mirror, the clock represents a rigid mechanized businessman (not to mention time) that consumes both the heartbeat and the more youthful hooded figure.


Changing