Confluence
An ambient video installation atop Salesforce Tower.
In the city, habit separates us from nature; we perceive a distance between ourselves and the water, land, and living beings which sustain us. We treat living beings as subjects, even commodities, rather than realize them as kin.
Confluence attempts to refute this frame of thinking, weaving a portrait of the natural in which we recognize ourselves. Illuminating images of water and life, categories and distinctions are blurred. Commonality among moving, agitated, bodies is found on screen, a strange view in which nature becomes altered and familiar at once. Water, necessary to all biogeochemical processes, runs through the piece: Confluence is a flow of empathetic imagery set in the night sky.
Special thanks to Jim Campbell, Beverly Choe, Emma Strebel, and the best team: Ethan Petersen, Constantinos Gallis, Aaron Adriano, and Lily Laugharn!
View from San Francisco Marriott Marquis