Two Women installed at Floating Gallery (Winnipeg), February 1995.
Installation approximately 14 feet plus monitor and stand.
In 1991 I began Two Women, a computer-based installation, which is in effect
an early
instance of a work involving multimedia technology. The monitor presents family photos
and texts of interviews with the two women, Tammy and Sara; the wall component
consists of two lightboxes and two cabinets in each of which three images rotate,
responding to either the keyboard or software timing. Here the viewer
re-processes---changes resolution, creates half-tones, zooms, rotates the images in the
cabinets, and switches between images and texts and between the two lives. I've shown
Two Women both without the wall component (Art Gallery of Windsor) and with an
entirely different one (Moorehead State University Art Gallery); the form of Two
Women is open-ended, i.e. formally it, too, is open to process and change.