Flight  (2006)

Collection of Allen and Kelli Questrom, Dallas/Aspen
NFS; exhibition available from artist's proof

Single channel video
Stereo audio
4:00 exhibition loop    1:00 sample


     Although my brother and I were born and grew up in central Kansas, our family is southern, from east Texas back to Mississippi and Louisiana on our mother's side, and from Arkansas back to Tennessee and North Carolina on our father's.
In such families the living and the dead often are equally present in story and reference; a great-grandmother appears at the dinner table when her favorite dish is passed; a despised third cousin, long in his grave, attempts yet another swindle; the unjust death of an infant rings heavily down through generation after generation.  Nothing is ever lost.  All is told again and again, and again.

     A common strategy in music is free composition over a recurring ground bass or ostinato.  In Flight, the ostinato is in the video; the visual rhythm of the flowing soup can images provides a temporal foundation for audio composition.