Ground Control
utilizes the stop-motion process as a stand in for the viewers blinking eye. Using two screens the videos of different durations
are looped; the same images are never side by side in order to dismantle any linear time-line. As a child in Kansas, my family
spent many weekends traveling across the expansive horizon visiting relatives. The outside of the car became another world,
the car being like a membrane, a new skin. My homeland flew by in a cinematic fashion allowing me to project stories onto
those familiar, but unknown places. Ground Control is about my coming home. After moving out of state for several
years, I realized that the Kansas landscape had always found its way into my work. The homeland becomes us; it is intrinsic
to our person, to our knowledge of ourselves.
