Video, 3’11”, 2021

Horizon – the space between us

I would like to invite you to help create a collective film.

During the Coronavirus pandemic I have felt my horizons simultaneously shrink to the size of my neighbourhood, my home, and expand as my thoughts and dreams are filled with events and places far away.

Forest fires, floods, empty streets, streets full of protests, violence, or celebrations, long, socially-distanced lines at polling stations or banks, an iceberg floating in the Antarctic Ocean, and death, daily – all these scenes have been happening before our eyes. The rifts between people seem especially deep right now. Maybe others share a feeling of shrunken and overstretched horizons.

I would like to create a collective, continuous – potentially infinite – landscape film, inspired by the ‘endless landscape’ card game. I want to see what happens when we follow a horizon line. The horizon needn’t be a distant view of hills or sea, or buildings, or sky – your landscape can be your kitchen shelf, the kerb, a leaf or rock. Your interior or internal landscape is perhaps the nearest to hand, the most vivid, the horizon that holds your attention right now.

First published in November 2021