Contrapunctus  (2006)

Single channel video
Stereo audio
6:30 exhibition loop    1:00 sample


     Serpentine video strands move in slow counterpoint against one another, each strand carrying the fragment of a shared narrative. Voices speak in accents of the upland and tidewater south.

     The text fragments carried by the video strands in Contrapunctus paraphrase stories told by my parents--about their childhoods, their parents, how they met, their lives during World War II--a narrative web within which and out of which our family story proceeded. In the audio, voices provide a parallel, almost ritual counterpoint of questions and comments.