Wandering Ephemera Loop is a glitchy minute-long video that incorporates still image, text, and slowed footage of a handheld camera in swinging motion. An iPhone taken along for a jog and held in the runner’s hand is the point of view, as if the camera app were accidentally opened and began recording. What the aloof videographer captures is the formal momentum of a body in motion–the back and forth swinging of a pendulum that pauses for a moment on opposite poles before barreling backward and then forward again. Within this background, fuzzy magnified photographs taken through binocular lenses dance in seemingly random sequences on the screen. These squares collage together to create a fragmented array of textural observations of the environment. At the same time, sentences about memory and the metaphors of looping accumulate with a similar treatment, broken down into their word components and scattered across the flat space of the screen. The work presents allusions to the constantly-on surveillance tracking on our personal devices, the detached gaze of the pedestrian in the urban landscape, and the poetic metaphors of looping as an experience of place and memory.
