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Tearing
Nil
B&W
Silent
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2019
duration /
01'00

Creating Tearing, I imaged a video that began at loss. I imagined a video was already destroyed, that had already forgotten, whose fragments had been fragmented. I imagined this video that remained fragile, flickering in and out of visibility, that refused to take shape, that existed on the verge of becoming a body, a face, a reflection of light on water. I imagined a video that was so small it had already disappeared, a video that was already a shadow of itself. I found a video of the reflection of light on water I recorded two years prior and uploaded it and downloaded it until its colors began to blur and collaged multiple instances of it together until otherwise invisible patterns appeared with clarity.

about the artist /

Zach McLane is a writer and artist based in Southern California. He is currently a PhD student in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include: race and its relation to aesthetics and power, poetry and poetics, environmental humanities, and experimental media practices. He holds a BA in Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California, where he studied narrative form and visual culture.

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