Amid Flowers, Crowns, and Tears
Digitized film, original duration 11:19
Amid Flowers, Crowns, and Tears stages a doubled gaze between Dallas in 1970 and the United States more than fifty years later. This looking is encoded first by the original news camerapersons and then reactivated through the artist’s subsequent encounter with the footage. Structured around shifts between presence and absence, the film moves from scenes of bodies lounging poolside to a woman lying at the site where unarmed Michael Morehead was shot and killed by police. In a slow, measured rhythm, the work oscillates between sound and silence, figure and ground, spectacle and obfuscation.
Curated by Michael Morris and presented at the Dallas Museum of Art.