In DIS/APPEAR a live video image of the exhibition space is processed in real time to incorporate a temporal delay. Time appears to stretch. Moving objects and people disappear from the image. Only things that are stationary are brought sharply into focus.

This work was initially inspired by the grainy images and halting motion of early web cam video. What would normally be considered a deficiency, something that would improve with increased bandwidth, seems to give visible form to the phenomenon of human memory – to the simultaneous stillness and transience of images we recall from the past.

Work on Dis/appear began during a creative residency at the Banff Art Centre in Alberta, Canada.