(Excerpt) Amid Flowers, Crowns, and Tears, digitized film, original duration 11:19
Amid Flowers, Crowns, and Tears serves as a doubled gaze between 1970 Dallas and America over fifty years later. The gaze is encoded by the original news camerapersons and the ensuing one of the artist/filmmaker. The (digitized) film is structured to shift between moments of presence and absence; bodies lounge poolside in one scene and, in another, a woman lies down at the site where unarmed Michael Morehead was shot and killed by police. In slow rhythm, the film moves between sound and silence, figure and ground, as well as spectacle and obfuscation.
Curated by Michael Morris and presented at the Dallas Museum of Art
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