For Reach for Shine, the video installation Warm Bodies lets you see heat waves, normally invisible to the human eye, reflected from the leaves and flowers of the Ballona Wetlands, the last wetland in Los Angeles. With an optical filter, these light waves appear bright against the dark sky. September 5-30, 2024, Small Works, San Francisco, California in collaboration with Personal Space, Vallejo, California
Photo: Mor Arkadir
Photo: Maya Schweizer
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Film still
Photo: Mor Arkadir
Film still
Photo: Mor Arkadir
Film still
Photo: Mor Arkadir
For Climate Care Festival 2023, the video installation Inside Ballona/Waachnga brought into the water retention basin of Floating University Berlin, establishes a site-specific relationship between the two watery ecologies. September 21 - 30, 2023, for Floating Berlin.
Audio recording and mixing by Daniel Rothman
For Inglewood Open Studios at Miracle Theater, Inglewood, the experimental film Five Minutes in the Ballona Waachnga explores the seasonal changes between spring and autumn 2022 in the wildflowers native to the wetland. 11/12&13, 2022.
Ambient audio recording and mixing: Daniel Rothman. Installation shots: Christopher Wormald
For the series of exhibitions, performances, lectures, screenings, and workshops, Deep Ocean, Deep Space, Fulcrum Festival 2022 at 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica the two-channel audio-visual installation Ballona/Waachnga Project explores the sounds of migrating birds and the biological cycle of wildflowers of the wetland. 09/22, 00:00-23:59, 2022