Autokinetic Horizon , 2009

b/w photocopied anonymous landscape, each page 8.5”x11”
length variable per installation

Autokinetic Horizon consists of a photocopied horizon image taped up over and over again in linear repetition to create a film-strip or motion-like appearance referencing the traveling, linear nature of time and the photocopying process of repetition. Any reference to time or locality has been removed, leaving one with few facts about the image. Likewise all color has been removed, leaving the grayscale image as a further step toward the anonymous or neutralized.

To me, the horizon line is important in speaking of the subjective experience of time order, and the anonymous landscape imagery is necessary to remove all references to specific time and location. Horizon lines reach into subjective time; as the objective horizontal plane stretches away from the observer to the remote distance, a point is reached at which details cease to be knowable. This is the borderland between the objective and subjective realms; this is the anonymous landscape. Therefore, the horizon line can be read as a common image of the future, of future time. Human time is experienced as one directional, always moving forward in motion. Autokinetic Horizon references this linear forward motion, the temporality of experience, and has also been installed to reference frame rates for home videos.

installation view

installation view with Correspondence