Disconnect (2020)

Disconnect is a video performance centered around the lockdown during the COVID19 pandemic Made during quarantine the work is about the yearning and the passing time that separates myself from natural space The video starts on a single frame of a negative lit from a lightbox The negative is taken in the mountains in nature At the time of recording Quebec is still under lockdown and National and Provincial Parks are closed to the public As an artist whose work is centered around nature the environment and the human relationship with nature I have temporarily lost my muse The act of layering squares of clear acetone over the negative is the passing of time until we lose touch with nature and natural space The negative is barely visible under all the acetone that has been piled up