SWAMP
Swamp, set in the Florida everglades, depicts the artist immersed in murky water. The video is dreamlike and disorienting, punctuated by prescient buzzing and ominous marshland noises. Her ever-shifting figure evokes simultaneously tales of Ophelia, mermaids, and B-movie swamp creatures. Her reflection is mirrored in the dark water revealing a double, a shadow-self. She is forever emerging and submerging, suggesting mutability and metamorphosis, yet she is locked in the morass of this transitional state. Swamp blurs the distinction between the outer world and an internal, more psychological realm.