World-Wide-Walks/SFBAY
Peter d’Agostino © 2021
Video installation Virtual preview: 9min (of 18:45 loop) Edition: 5 + 2 AP
Three Walks (at the base of Sutro Tower, on the Bay Bridge, in the San Francisco cloud forest) are juxtaposed with views overlooking the bay from the Oakland / Berkeley Hills. A score by Reese Williams combines with environmental sounds and images shifting times and places, during the week of June 21, 2014.*
This preview installation simulates the changing light in a room overlooking the bay where the video was originally recorded and projected. As the sun sets, the luminous white space gradually darkens to reveal the projected images. In the darkened space, the video plays in its entirety before the light re-emerges to wash out the images as the room returns to the bright white space. The continuous sound track maintains a presence in the space as images appear and disappear during the looping cycles of light to dark - dark to light.
* Summer solstice time cycle, sunset 8:35pm to 10:30pm darkness (Astro twilight).