Ever Is Over All

Ever Is Over All envelops viewers in two slowmotion projections on adjacent walls In one a roving camera focuses on red flowers in a field of lush vegetation The spellbinding lull this imagery creates harmonizes with the projection to its left which features a woman in sparkling ruby slippers promenading down a carlined street The fluidity of both scenes is disrupted when the woman violently smashes a row of car windshields with the longstemmed flower she carries As the vandal gains momentum with each gleeful strike of her wand an approaching police officer smiles in approval introducing comic tension into this whimsical and anarchistic scene MoMA