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The KT Boundary

2018/2019

single-channel video, sound. 11 minutes and 10 seconds.

My work often borrows language and appropriates techniques from various therapeutic modalities to address recollection, memory, and historical trauma. My video The KT Boundary moves between a paleontological dig site in New Jersey and a film set where a male actor punches holes in a wall while a female actor repairs them. This simultaneous excavation and concealment serves as a visual metaphor for an act of violence and its visual relationship to the asteroid that annihilated the dinosaurs. The KT Boundary is projected onto a wall sculpture consisting of seven layers of drywall panels, each layer slightly smaller than the one preceding it. This tiered surface echoes the morphology of the paleontological dig site as well as the additive and subtractive processes associated with psychological exploration. The video takes its structure from an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy session. Similar to the way a video works you over, EMDR is a form of psychotherapy that uses oscillating bilateral light and sound to affect and ultimately heal your subconscious.

the KT Boundary(video)
the KT Boundary(video)
the KT Boundary(video)
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