Laurie McDonald: Early Videoworks

Rhythmically chewing their meals, a herd of cattle creates interesting shapes, patterns, and movements in this “keyed” (a process of dividing areas of a black and white image into percentages of…

Body Images is an exploration of the television screen as a graphic surface, and movement, line, shape and time are the elements used as design tools. Laurie composed the electronic music sound track…

In Deux Pieds, video is used to create dance illusions, effects impossible to achieve in dance except via video technology. Video “keying” (a process of dividing areas of a black and white image…

Duet for Tap and Galoshes is a visual restructuring of a real time tap performance, presented in two parts. In part one, Laurie’s feet fill the television screen, and different close-ups of the feet…

The Dying Swan is a recreation of the acclaimed ballet — Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova's most famous role — borrowed from its theatrical context and taken back to the lake.  A frozen pond…

Hydroglyphs pictographic writing in water, is a work that experiments with the lyrical qualities of shapes, colors, and forms occurring in water reflections and how these elements create an…

Minute Waltz is a ballet performance recorded on a time-lapse VHS security surveillance recorder borrowed over a weekend from a local bank. Laurie dances in slow motion for twenty minutes to create…

The colorized abstractions of Moog Images were created by feeding Moog synthesizer oscillators into the video inputs of a television monitor. The oscillators were locked into the horizontal and…

A furniture hoist strap encircles Laurie’s waist, lifting and guiding her through this interpretation of the waltz from the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty.” The stage and setting is the parking lot…

A magnetic "dancing" ballerina toy, found by Bob, inspired this video of a real ballerina (Laurie McDonald) spinning as if the magnetic coils in an old black and white mid-century Setchell Carlson…