I made Untitled (landscape) to present a ‘landscape’ in which a white rectangle that initially covers the entire frame, grows smaller and smaller during the length of the film so that it is both the focal point and obstruction of the screen. Consequently, on questioning viewers, the experience seemed to be divided by either focusing on the surrounding details on the edges of the screen or on the consistent just-perceptible movement of the white rectangle.

 

For me it started very simply perhaps like a painter coming to an empty canvas- the purity of the space is very powerful and that sense of possibility- the infinite (and terrifying) potential feels lost when this space is filled. But what was the point of setting up the rectangle in the middle and the moving image on the edge? Perhaps Monsieur Foucault was not in fact far off when he mentioned a centre-periphery discourse in the video and if this were the case then it can be seen as a continuation from a work I had made earlier in 2005, for the Antipodes project.