Visual Haiku: Bad Habit AKA Smoker's Ritual

Jean R. Faulkner Memorial Award Winner 2012

This video was created as a visual haiku to explore the smoker's repetative ritual act of opening a pack of cigarettes.

My first video project. This video is a survey of movements and habits of smokers when they open a new pack of cigarettes.

Portraits of Home

Capstone video series Fall 2012

Lincoln is my creative home. The people that I met and worked with here shape and inspire my creative identity. I work with portraiture because I find it both challenging and rewarding as an attempt to capture the intangible essence of a person. This series is a collection of video portraits that seek to document the passion and drive of some of the local creatives who have had an impact on who I am as an artist. The personal interviews drive theses pieces. The goal is to create an introspective but conversational tone, allowing the subjects to reveal themselves. It is a personal look at these artists framed figuratively by the questions I ask and literally by the lens of my camera. The footage is meant as a backdrop to the narration. The images show you the subjects’ actions and quirks, but it’s their personal narration that becomes the most important part of the pieces.

Lincoln is my creative home. The people that I met and worked with here shape and inspire my creative identity. I work with portraiture because I find it both challenging and rewarding as an attempt to capture the intangible essence of a person. This series is a collection of video portraits that seek to document the passion and drive of some of the local creatives who have had an impact on who I am as an artist. The personal interviews drive theses pieces. The goal is to create an introspective but conversational tone, allowing the subjects to reveal themselves. It is a personal look at these artists framed figuratively by the questions I ask and literally by the lens of my camera. The footage is meant as a backdrop to the narration. The images show you the subjects’ actions and quirks, but it’s their personal narration that becomes the most important part of the pieces.

Lincoln is my creative home. The people that I met and worked with here shape and inspire my creative identity. I work with portraiture because I find it both challenging and rewarding as an attempt to capture the intangible essence of a person. This series is a collection of video portraits that seek to document the passion and drive of some of the local creatives who have had an impact on who I am as an artist. The personal interviews drive theses pieces. The goal is to create an introspective but conversational tone, allowing the subjects to reveal themselves. It is a personal look at these artists framed figuratively by the questions I ask and literally by the lens of my camera. The footage is meant as a backdrop to the narration. The images show you the subjects’ actions and quirks, but it’s their personal narration that becomes the most important part of the pieces.