fin

The video installation, fin, is a continuous loop of a landscape from dawn to dusk with no clear beginning or end. On the 'face' it is an incredibly simple piece employing cinematic tropes, including the institutionalized method of projection that parallels cinematic scale and the eponymous declarative, “fin”. The piece (both subtly and overtly) subverts narrative expectation, time and memory as it projects a perpetual beginning and ending while realizing neither at once. Beyond possibly pedantic deconstructions of cinema and/or narrative, the piece itself seeks to participate and play in the cultural landscape in the memory of 19th century landscape painting presenting and challenging the possibility of the melancholic and the sublime (somehow intrinsic to a notion of memory) in the 21st century, in video, outside of its own thematic institutionalization from the grandeur of Romanticism to the kitsch canvas variety still eponymous in contemporary photographic calendar and card.