In 1995 I exhibited an installation of disassembled CRT televisions hanging from the ceiling and rafters at the art gallery of Dowling College in Long Island.
The videos playing on the monitors were slow motion sequences taken of small areas of an empty room which which was soon to be remodelled. The videos were inspired by the novel Jealousy
by Robbes-Grillet. This empty room of shadows then became the scene for a murder mystery inspired by the movie The Letter which was made after the novel by Somserset Maughn. The movie starring
Bette Davis followed the demise of an English rubber plantation owner's wife (in Malaysia) who shot her lover for abandoning her for a local Eurasian woman.
The disassembled televisions played short vignettes tracing three actors in various poses as they descend from scenes of romance to scenes of a gun fight and ultimately death.
This is a long introduction for the current virtual video fragments which follows the viewer's movement through an exhibition space of video projections which turn on as the viewer
wanders near the projection surfaces. The video vignettes used in this exhibition were all taken during the time period September 1, 2015 to October 5, 2015. This is the period
during which the videos for the work SA were shot. fragments 090115 - 100515 includes other videos taken accidently or incidently during that period of time as well as videos
which were not used in SA although shot for it.