Caesura
The interruptions, at first, appear as glitches or effects of a malfunction. This is because the interludes are disturbing to what seem to be moments of clarity. A much louder and faster movement unexpectedly disrupts the slow and graceful gliding of the camera and the quiet meditative sound. Sound and image of the interruptions are made by the contact to the microphone and the lens and are abstracted by the patterns of branches created depending on how I swing, twist and move the camera around. I use the camera lens and microphone not as a representation of anything heard or seen, but as a point of contact of my performative confrontation. Applied indexically, it becomes a literal impression by the force of my gesture.
©2003 Maria Dumlao
