Video • 4:05 minutes • Fall 2017
An American Study comprises video and sound I recorded during the summer of 2017 when traveling to Indianapolis, New York, Boston, and Roanoke Island. It is set up in a comparing format of dual videos that start with humans’ interjection of nature and how our lives project onto it through manicuring and domesticity. These themes, which America's land experienced upon the first European arrivals, have taken over more than our landscapes. It has caused wars in the name of God and also in the name of Our Nature, and it has also led to the illusion of what America is - hope. People have flocked here over the same messages of land, freedom, and prosperity once promised to early settlers centuries ago. The color white is represented in the video to show how the idea of perfection and purity is not concrete like its statues and monuments. How America's obsession with the institutionalization of the color white and purity has made us blind to nature, land, freedom, and prosperity.