Afraid to Look

Afraid to Look reflects on our conditioned responses to historical actions that create inhibiting filters limiting our ability to see more positive alternatives. Unable to imagine new points of entry we live today with yesterday’s solutions and continue to contaminate the present and threaten the future.

As nuclear proliferation continues, and fuel oil pollute the air, oil residue produces an exponentially growing list of products that permeates every facet of our lives from plastics to food additives. We wear it, we live in it, we consume it; we are it. How we’ve come to this state of conditioned belief is echoed in the final verse as a state of persistence of vision, as the viewer sees moving images that are not there.

28 years of personally recorded footage, shot in several countries recorded on a variety of formats are used in Afraid to Look integrated with personal MRI’s and X-rays mixed with found medical footage, and archival footage from news and social media. Image pacing, from beginning to end increases in visual speed mimicking the tempo of our evolving sense of time, guided by head, heart, and hope.

No AI was used