A few years ago, I was gifted a flash drive containing hours and hours of home movies captured on VHS camcorders throughout my childhood. As a leading body of work in graduate school, I began a visual investigation of these home movies and the inherent visual qualities of the medium. Themes we often use to traditionally describe painting and photography as fine art practices started emerging from this documentative collection, and I became fascinated with the visual moments of what occurred in the "in-between" space of the otherwise mundane documentation of everyday life.

I began skimming through hours of these tapes, frame by frame, trying to find the "perfect" paintings (whatever those are) and using them as a platform to respond to what I loved about the images with oil.

In this painting, my goal was to attempt to capture the impressionistic and dizzying effect of a frame captured during the camera panning from right to left with big, decisive brush strokes that mimicked the loss in fidelity the panning effect had on this camera and its film.

Though I do not believe I was entirely successful in accomplishing what I set out to do in this small painting, I do enjoy the playful materiality of the live edge, and how it may in some way speak to the tearing or the physical nature of the rushing image derived from the rushing, panning camera.

I would love to return to this concept and series at a larger scale in the future to see how that might effect my ability to serve my ideas more effectively and create a different level of accessibility for the audience.

More of the paintings in this series can be found on my profile page.

Thanks for looking, and let me know what you think!