Index of Scenes

Three videos of chickens engaging in different behaviors comprise the video installation Index of Scenes; they play underneath a window in a theatrical ledge wrapped in varying dark tones of velvet and wool. Each video, depicting the wild birds searching, fleeing, and staring, is projected from beneath the ledge onto the back wall, with a paneled drinking glass between projector and screen catching the chicken’s form in a ghostly intermediary apparition — the light turning around and seeing itself, or the uncapturable state between beginning and end in a quantum chicken-egg dilemma.