Three-channel HD video installation
Three wall mounted LCD screens
Duration: 40:00 (video-loop)
Dimensions variable
2014
Infinity (Between a Cactus Rose and a Dead Man’s Mirror) unfolds across three wall-mounted LCD screens, each presenting shifting, tessellating patterns built from manipulated Western film stills. Stripped of all human presence, the appropriated landscapes are mirrored, repeated, and multiplied into kaleidoscopic formations, expanding and contracting in an endless loop that suggests a supernatural and potentially infinite topography.
The work draws from the photographic legacy of Ansel Adams, whose images of the American wilderness sought to present a purified, idealised landscape free from modern intrusions. By echoing this erasure, while also reconfiguring cinematic Western vistas, the work interrogates how landscapes are constructed as sites of myth and imagination.
Its title invokes two iconic cinematic motifs of the “end-of-the-line” Western: the Texas rose in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Jim Jarmusch’s mirrored sky in Dead Man (1995). Between these symbols of beauty and reflection, Infinity situates itself as both homage and critique, a meditation on the Western’s oscillation between mythic timelessness and inevitable decline.