Brokenness

Kathy McTavish's video work is original. This is a recomposition of image into music.

The camera is the saxophone of John Coltraine, and she is blowing endless notes. Improvs with stills. A sequencing of the light.

She finds beauty in made objects. Brokenness. Decoding the industrial genome. Ladders. Metalwork. Radiators. Pipes. Faucets. Drains. Mesh. Grids, spans. Spider webs. Window panes. Sidewalks. Oblique angles on the linear. Bricks, doors, overhead beams. An urban decay. Rust. Lime deposits. Silt, dust, grit.

Images return again and again and are made abstract. Images are layered and masked. There is an obsessiveness. A sky. Ghost images. Blurring. The movement is a change in angle. The focal point is shifting as are the lines of perspective. The eye of the camera takes in both near and far simultaneously.

Here is a deconstruction of the subject into color and light, and a deconstruction of the notion of film and movie. Time is slowed down and the frame becomes a magnifying glass. The object becomes a character and the light becomes ecstatic.