Jim Campbell Taxi Ride To Sarah's Studio

LED lights are strung along 9 foot tall hanging wires at varying intervals, facing the wall. The lights become exponentially fewer and farther apart as the wires spread to the right. The video-based imagery created by the flickering LEDs is from footage shot by the artist from the window of a taxi as he rode from the West Side of Manhattan to Brooklyn. The moving images are more perceptible on the left side of the piece where the LEDs are more condensed, and become less perceptible to the right. The video was shot at an angle to the left, towards the taxi's destination; traffic and the landscape seem to rush out from the vortex-like vanishing point on the horizon. Between the dense source of motion on one side and the fading ripples of light on the other, remarkable levels of detail emerge from the scant digital information supplied.

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Film & Animation

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