Seated Figures

Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera in this case fixed to the rear of a pickup truck and aimed at the ground the result is one of Snows most visually compelling films As Snow drives the truck over all kinds of terrain he has offhandedly described the film as a history of roads we see a variety of textures flowing in front of the camera as this road movie unfolds asphalt gravel dirt roads sand grass flowers and shallow creeks The imagery moves between abstraction and representation as different travelling speeds affect the legibility of the visuals and as manmade surfaces give way to the beautifully variegated patterning of nature