Aqueduct works through the poetic juxtaposition of narrative fragments in an atmosphere of enforced perceptual slowness and heightened awareness of color. There is a submerged psychological narrative, but the effect of the piece derives ultimately from the slowness of the gaze and the fact that the projected images are often in prolonged contact with one another. I have been deeply influenced in my work by the poet John Keats’ articulation of the concept of negative capability -- the capability to leave off the irritable searching after of facts. It is in the spirit of negative capability that my work explores the possibilities of the postponement of closure, the subversion of the narrative impulse, and the interrogation of ideas of the self. |
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