Cecily Sophia Culver_ fine artist

Installation view of tempo reality, video projection, bed sheets, pillow, window shade, February 2012 

The result of my experimentation with video, that was intended to capture the temporality of life, felt very dream-like and surreal. I decided to push this association with recreating my bedroom, void of color, upon which the video could be projected. 

I played around with the way in which the video should be projected: directly over the bed, or across the corner recreating the bedroom space more fully, and the light hitting the various textures of the included objects; I felt the latter was more successful.  

tempo reality, video, February 2012 

I recreated the video temporality (below) and have been experimenting with projecting it as an installation piece. 

Temporality, video, february 2012 

Tides and time, documentation of video projection onto 11 cast cement metronome sculptures, approx. 9’x7’, january 2012 

Pattern home,  dress pattern, gold leaf, bees wax, copper sheet, brass tacks, pine, 2.5”x4.6”x3.4”,

I am excited about the recent opportunity to show this piece in the “Where Do We Go from Here?(The Shape of Things to Come)” exhibition at the Wiseman Galley at Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR. An exhibition of small works relating to the history of women.  

I re created the video I intend to project over my cement metronome sculptures. I believe this video is a bit more successful with smoother transitions. I am very excited for the next step, experimenting with the wall sized projection and seeing how the video interacts with the overlapping image of the sculptures and the waves. 

This is my second attempt at making a final cut video. I intend to project this video over the sculptures themselves, the images of the sculptures in the video overlapping with the real sculptures. Video has allowed me to actually manipulate time through the recordings and i am excited to see what this will look like in its projected form; however, i may attempt another video that is smoother with better transitions as this one is jumpy in a few places.

Pendulums 

I cast cement bases for some of the iron pendulums recently. I like how static they look on them as well as how the multiples look lined up, they almost seem like weaponry of some kind.

I welded the tips back onto some of those that did not cast and grinded them down into points. I was going to sandblast them to look more uniform;however, I enjoy the collection of all of these marks from various processes gathering on the surface, I think it contributes to their associations (those that I have at least) between them and time. 

In the next weeks I would like to continue rusting these pieces, allowing them to gather more grime and marks from the environment and time passing. I plan on installing a few of them and seeing them in action, making marks in sand or onto paper; im very excited to see what come out of this. 

This is my first attempt at editing with Final Cut Pro, I took some videos and still images I shot of a piece I completed at Durand Beach over the summer and this is the result. =)

With a View  

some photos i took recently