From Dust and Light (2018)
Digital Print
A1
Lincon center, CO USA
"Dust" was created during the 2018 MORPHOS Digital Dome Residency as part of their LGBTQIA+ Artists Program, an initiative supporting queer artists working in immersive technologies.
"Dust" is an immersive video installation that examines the persistence of absence through digital resurrection. Using advanced photogrammetry techniques, I meticulously scanned and captured architectural spaces that have ceased to exist physically, transforming these lost environments into comprehensive three-dimensional digital reconstructions.
The work manifests as a 360-degree video projection within a circular theater, completely surrounding viewers and placing them at the center of these phantom spaces. This immersive experience creates a paradoxical encounter: the physical body occupies digitally reconstructed environments that no longer exist in material reality.
Through this technological mediation, "Dust" interrogates fundamental questions about presence and absence, memory and documentation. Like archeological fragments reassembled, these digital remnants allow vanished spaces to maintain a spectral existence, challenging our understanding of permanence and disappearance in an increasingly digitized world.
The title alludes to both the physical remains that signal decay and absence, and the particulate nature of digital information that allows for reconstitution and preservation. The work positions itself at the intersection of documentation and resurrection, exploring how digital technologies might serve as archives of spatial memory, preserving what would otherwise be lost to time.
Dust (2018)
360 Video
6 mins
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, USA