The Death of the Sun (in three parts), represented here through archive footage, is a single

channel audio/visual installation that utilizes three freestanding analog tape players playing three

synchronized tape loops in conjunction with a digital video of the sun.

The sun, as it spins, becomes increasingly corrupted through a slow degenerative process

employing re-photographic techniques - ultimately creating several generations of the same clip until

its clear, definable image, gives way to abstraction. As the image slowly un-defines itself I am creating

an awareness of the tenuous nature of all digital images. Already intangible, the ethereal make up of the digital representation of the sun, over the course of a day, is corrupted and compressed into something

wholly foreign to its original form. It is in essence, the death of the image.  

The audio portion of the installation is meant to recall Letterist poetry, the goal of which was to

break language into pure expressive sound through the repetition of familiar noises. What I achieve

through mechanizing that noise and playing it through a decidedly impermanent medium is a realtime

disintegration of both sound and apparatus. Complimenting the visual component, the magnetic tape, as it continuously loops through the heads of the cassette player grows more and more structurally

compromised, effecting not only the sound but also the physical integrity of the piece. The end result

finds digital and analog slowly eroding together in a harmonious cacophony of sound and image,

evoking not only the mortality of the apparatus and the artifact, but also a larger cosmic mortality.