Centrifugally Forced
Kevin Kelly
Dates Showing: May 24th - June 13th, 2003
Centrifugally  Forced was shot with a spinning video camera in Bryce Canyon National Park. This three monitor installation presents a landscape on the verge of rupture or collapse. It presents whirling image of a popularly photographed landscape. This panorama often falls into abstraction and is unrecognizable as Bryce Canyon. Centrifugally Forced presents questions about random order. In the cosmos, what isn't shifting or spinning?
The second part of the exhibition is a series of digital prints titled Centrifuge. A centrifuge is a machine that separates particles of varying density. This series of digital prints attempts to undermine the stereotypical photographs taken of this well known tourist site. Often, these panoramas become abstract and even unrecognizable as Bryce Canyon National Park. These stills present mages that "happen by chance"; they embrace an irrational or "out of control" aesthetic. These images are stills taken from video images of Centrifually Forced.
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