Three minutes of a more or less continuous landscape, 2009

Three minutes of a more or less continuous landscape is a video that meditates upon our relationship with the environment. It is a brief fragment, the duration of a pop song, but it is a fragment of something that continues, more or less, even now.

The still timelessness of the background and the endlessness of the continually shifting foreground, begin to blur, they merge, they almost collapse into one another. As this sense of depth is lost in the image the fragmentary compartmental nature of what it means to selectively focus is too, and so the supposed distance between one thing and another is replaced by an inherent sense of their connectedness.

Three minutes of a more or less continuous landscape has been shown at Climate Emergency, a video art and performance evening coinciding with World Environment Day, At the Vanishing Point Newtown 5th June 6-9pm, 2009. The event was been curated by Ingrid Dernee.