Positioning the camera facing upwards on the ground and after activating the delayed shutter release, jumping off a tree stump over the camera with the intention to take a picture of myself above it in the air
(2001)
36 colour prints, video monitor
DVD PAL, 17:57 min, loop play
Mini-DV Master
The work deals with the nature of image making and the merging of exercise, game, ritual and artistic process.
"I remember wondering whether as an artist I ever do anything but imitate an imaginary memory, and asking myself what could happen when somebody in the future came across only the remnants of the photographic prints or a title of these works: would they try to rediscover the skills of the fictional lost tradition to which these remnants refer?"