This single image presents a complex ecology of image, material, nature, artifice, space and time; an ecology that provokes narrative.
Edges dissolve here. The closer we look, the harder it is to tell just where the border lies.
The image itself becomes granulated, its atoms start to float apart.
95 19’ 25” W, 49°N. Buffalo Point, Manitoba
But some trace of human passage remains. Before it crosses the lake to Elm Point, para||e| has its last index: tire tracks. Surveyors or smugglers?
para||e| was included in the exhibition Coding and Decoding Borders at the Dawn of the 21st Century , 2016, at Espace Architecture Flagey-Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Manizales, Colombia, 2017. The seven-hour version of para||e| was screened at Inter/Access Gallery in Toronto, 2016.
Perhaps there is no difference.
It hardly seems to matter to earth or image, the question of who owns what. O
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