My Own Backyard
My Own Backyard
Digital video stills as ink jet prints
40” x 60”
2007-08
This work began with the fantasy of seeing the world through my cats’ eyes. I created a specially designed Lycra suit to holds a tiny wireless video camera on top their heads. Of course, the observer impacts the observed, and once suited, the cats barely move, refuse to leave the backyard, and ultimately shake their heads free. In the resulting footage, I am fascinated by moments, less than a fraction of a second and visible only as stills where digital glitches in the transmission of data between the various elements of the apparatus yield images that look like surveillance of outer space. These images are the result of a plurality of subjectivities: mine, the cats, the technological apparatus, and the landscape.