Drift
Video Art and Sculpture project, (developing), 2018
Drift, video, 2min, 2018
Drift from Bianca Boragi on Vimeo.
Drift, Sculpture, Crane Feathers, Sea salt, 6"x 2", 2018
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Drift includes a video and a set of small sculptures. The materials for this project were collected and inspired from the landscape of Salt Lake City and Southern Utah, which reminded me of another planet. I was drawn tocapture the pastel palette of this place, which I perceived as a prehistoric, otherworldly and/or post-apocalyptic landscape. This work seeks to engage the question of what will remain of civilization when it is situated in the deep time of the future. Within this landscape, not only does this body of work document the American culture of firearms and its attendant violence, but it also places this moment within the context of anthropogenic climate change and a projected future where this civilization did not persist.
Drift contemplates notions of permanence and finitude. What will outgrow us? With the recent controversy related to the opening up of public lands for oil and gas extraction in formerly protected land, I am questioning the political agenda as a means to meditate on environmental issues and American consumerism developed in essays such as Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton and The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton.
Drift contemplates notions of permanence and finitude. What will outgrow us? With the recent controversy related to the opening up of public lands for oil and gas extraction in formerly protected land, I am questioning the political agenda as a means to meditate on environmental issues and American consumerism developed in essays such as Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton and The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton.