“River Shimmer”
Susan Jennings’ abstract video work has long involved itself with the bare essentials of light, movement and color. She has turned to nature, specifically water, very often for her imagery. For this piece Jennings captures moving light on a river as a dance between figure and ground. This imagery is then projected onto whimsically moving sculptures which reflect and refract the video light and send it around the room onto the walls and sculptures as well as the viewers.
For the first time Jennings has collaborated with the artist, Slink Moss who created a sound piece in response to the visual art. His sound for this piece is also inspired by water and light. Drums and percussion represent drops of water or rays of light. The field sounds Moss has captured of water, birds and trains are also percussive. In this way they relate to the visuals of the installation which deal with light as an object and, conversely, objects as light.
