Motion 1 (2010-)
Mixed media installation: paper, pencil, pen on board; LCD wide-screen
monitor, video (180 minutes)
Variable dimensions

The tote board in the Aqueduct horse racing track in New York City
serves as a tool of expression in this mixed-media installation.
Looped video replays of recorded races shot from a fixed frame are
played on a monitor that displays the changing odds of wagers placed
before each race.

The camera is an objective recorder of the fluctuating odds,
reflecting or tracking the temper and intensity of the group’s betting
instincts and preferences. Riding on the wagers are the bettors‘
hopes, biases, faith, tension, and sometimes even urgency. The camera
is an impartial witness to a compendium of individual partiality and
desires that flicker on the tote board, while other changes and
movements demonstrate other forms of physical motion--such as the
waving flags, figures of working men, the occasional car hurtling by
in the distance, the starting gate being driven across the track on
the lower band of the screen, and eventually the horses being prepared
by the jockeys and the race itself.

The video recordings are meant to illustrate motion in the form of the
fluctuating odds uploaded on the tote board at 30-second intervals and
other peripheral movements with the former being a more emotionally
charged realm (if you decide to use audio, you can add the following
clause: which can be audibly tracked through the rising excitement of
the crowd) and the latter being another ‘realm of fluctuation’ that
simply follow the physical laws of movement in space and time.

I then transferred all the recorded numbers displaying the different
variables such as time, odds, wins, and probables into a different
format. Each tote board for each race is reconstructed in paper, with
the fluctuating numbers all listed on reels of paper that loop either
vertically or horizontally and that can be manually moved with
attached paper wheels, allowing visitors to manipulate both the
physical motion within each paper construction as well as the recorded
fluctuation of odds. The sculptural translation into paper of the
flickering changes on the screen creates an extension or a rudimentary
replication of the recorded motion or fluctuations.

All the numbers on the tote board were replaced and arranged by my
hand onto paper as my ‘drawing,’ comprising an exercise that produces
another realm of motion.

Motion 1 (2010-)
Mixed media installation: paper, pencil, pen on board; LCD wide-screen
monitor, video (180 minutes)
Variable dimensions

The tote board in the Aqueduct horse racing track in New York City
serves as a tool of expression in this mixed-media installation.
Looped video replays of recorded races shot from a fixed frame are
played on a monitor that displays the changing odds of wagers placed
before each race.

The camera is an objective recorder of the fluctuating odds,
reflecting or tracking the temper and intensity of the group’s betting
instincts and preferences. Riding on the wagers are the bettors‘
hopes, biases, faith, tension, and sometimes even urgency. The camera
is an impartial witness to a compendium of individual partiality and
desires that flicker on the tote board, while other changes and
movements demonstrate other forms of physical motion--such as the
waving flags, figures of working men, the occasional car hurtling by
in the distance, the starting gate being driven across the track on
the lower band of the screen, and eventually the horses being prepared
by the jockeys and the race itself.

The video recordings are meant to illustrate motion in the form of the
fluctuating odds uploaded on the tote board at 30-second intervals and
other peripheral movements with the former being a more emotionally
charged realm (if you decide to use audio, you can add the following
clause: which can be audibly tracked through the rising excitement of
the crowd) and the latter being another ‘realm of fluctuation’ that
simply follow the physical laws of movement in space and time.

I then transferred all the recorded numbers displaying the different
variables such as time, odds, wins, and probables into a different
format. Each tote board for each race is reconstructed in paper, with
the fluctuating numbers all listed on reels of paper that loop either
vertically or horizontally and that can be manually moved with
attached paper wheels, allowing visitors to manipulate both the
physical motion within each paper construction as well as the recorded
fluctuation of odds. The sculptural translation into paper of the
flickering changes on the screen creates an extension or a rudimentary
replication of the recorded motion or fluctuations.

All the numbers on the tote board were replaced and arranged by my
hand onto paper as my ‘drawing,’ comprising an exercise that produces
another realm of motion.

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