Still Life - Drop I (Camera: GoPro 4)

2020
Digital Video
1,080 x 1,080 px

The Still Life - Drop I videos are the companion pieces to the Still Life works. These videos are a behind the scenes peek at the sheer mass of technology involved in making the works. Whether it be the numerically controlled pneumatic pistons that hand the sphere over to gravity or the DMX-controlled lighting system that in a few fractions of a moment switch between all the lighting setups so that each of the cameras, trained on an empty point in space, perfectly capture the sphere on its way to the concrete floor and to destruction.

But these ‘behind the scenes’ works do nothing to explain how the Still Life works were actually produced. The truth is, it is all fake—each an every pixel is an imitation of a real world event.

So with this I ask you to look again, can you now tell its an imitation or can you only conclude this because you've been told as much? Does that say anything about what you can trust to be true? And what about what you have just read? Can you trust what you have read? Isn't the written word (a technology in its own right) just as fallible? And if so, where does this leave us? Is it a real record of an event or not? Where does that leave truth? Is it in the words we read, or the things we see?

Each of us has to grapple with this tension between what we want to believe, what we actually believe and what is true. All with the knowledge that we are subject to manipulation.

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