2014
Generative video, black and white
13:00
disapparition is built from video recordings of natural scenes: clouds reflected on a surface, moving water, trees shifting in the wind. A pixel analysis compares each frame with the one before it, and only the pixels that change appear, in white. Everything that stays still disappears into black. The video was generated through this process without further editing.
What remains is not the landscape but its movement, gathering across the screen in large swarms of light. Up close, the image is a field of scattered points; from a distance, the swarms take on the shape of wind, water, and cloud. Disappearance is both the method and the subject of the work: the landscape becomes visible only through what changes in it. The title joins disappearance and apparition, what is seen is always vanishing in the same moment it is formed.
disapparition 
