Colorbound

2-Channel Video Installation
6:34 minutes
2017
"Colorbound" is a two-channel video that draws from a chess term that describes pieces that can only ever visit squares of one color, such as a bishop. The video takes place in two locations: The Lacawac Sanctuary in Eastern Pennsylvania and the old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building. In Lacawac, a lush forest green pervades the landscape, only to be punctured by a red figure. In contrast, the abandoned printing presses in a post-industrial factory show only the ghost of human presence. The scenes are spliced by cuts of monochromatic color field and its matching color name from Sherwin Williams, PPG, and Behr. Without a frame of reference to the origins of the names, the identities of each color exist as foreign characters from another world.

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  1. A Matter of Orientation
  2. Dong Xuan
  3. What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?
  4. Martha
  5. Survivors of a Lying Species
  6. Everything Is A Decaying Lump of Now
  7. Goose and Crocodile
  8. Disoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)
  9. The Immortal Gold Rabbit
  10. Welcome To Jungle Florida
  11. Colorbound
  12. Birdcage
  13. Colonial White
  14. China White
  15. Hanging Fruit
  16. The Impossibility of Home
  17. Reading the Rainbow
  18. Good Vibrations
  19. Intergalactic Immigration Office
  20. Vibrating Pink Egg
  21. Skinny Dipping
  22. White Lie
  23. Who’s Afraid of Chinatown Orange?
  24. Parental Guidance
  25. Movable Wave
  26. Portal
  27. Augmented Door
  28. Impermanent Infinity
  29. Expanded Field
  30. People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
  31. Day of the Painter
  32. Oedipal Art Wrestling
  33. I’M RESIGNING, I’M HEREBY OFICIALLY TENDERING MY RESIGNATION AS AN ADULT!
  34. Longing for the stars, Longing for the moon
  35. All work and no play makes art a dull boy