October 2nd - 19:30

Title: October 2nd - 19:30 Medium: Super-8 film Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Resolution: 2880 x 2160 File Type: H.264 Codec / MP4. Comments: We had arrived in to the night at a meeting place by the Sibelius monument. Jenni met us there and it was all closed off for construction. Gates surrounded the place. The light had vanished. We saw a break in the chainlink fence and went through undiscovered. I used the night film to see if that would reveal anything at all. But, ironically, Jenni had said to me that she was a vampire and her image would not show up. She was right because when I developed the film I could barely see through the grain, even though she was there and we used two cameras in two locations. In the dark by this pixelated organ we were playing under. Then by the water under the tungsten lights with the day time film. This caused an abstraction in the film and I decided to shift back and forth from both scenes to represent Jenni for this shot. Expressing the figure and what can be seen or couldn't. A painterly improvisation. To make the best of the film that we had. To see through the veil of a vampires reflection and shadow. A trace without being invisible anymore. To see even if she cannot be seen. Fragments of herself as her paintings reveal a profound depth to this womans' psyche. Jenni my friend, the muse from Finland. In this project the only failure is not making the art. The result is the art. Wether it is perfectly clear, absolutely blurry, or incredibly dark. The proof is in the journey, the ups and downs. The perfections and imperfections. As is life in its ebbs and flows. The art is the journey through the process, to be seen not as fragments, but as the whole.