Vertical Water by Steven Hoskins, video, 2009
Waves as sheets of water, rotated and split-screened, create mesmerizing undulation of movement, broken only by slow progressive shifts of horizontal asynchronous transitions that glide between each shot.
Steven Hoskins. Video artist and designer working from Richmond, Virginia, USA. He spent most of hes life as a graphic designer, and recently as a graphic design educator who teaches and practices in video. Much of this work is imbued with formal/visual explanations for the Hermeneutic Circle: the understanding of meaning derived from interrelationships between part and whole. This is embodied in the video image that is broken and reassembled; fragmented and reconstituted; a union made of asynchrony. Chaotic and irregular movements converge into unified movement; small multiples begin to move as a system.
