Single channel video installation, 16:9, HD, Color, Sound, 05:00, 2009

Nearby where I live is a cluster of decaying trees, which are covered in carvings. The limbs and trunks appear skin-like and have lost any semblance to botanical life. The messages etched upon bark are slowly being obliterated. I've visited this cluster for 11 years and wanted to capture their consciousness before decay finally eradicates their presence. Understanding perception and its influential relationship to subjectivity has long been the primary focus of my work. At this juncture, I am examining the slim threshold that exists between reality and imagination as experienced by human consciousness in order to understand how “being” is defined.