Ripple, noun; a sound or feeling that spreads through a person or group of people, gradually increasing and then becoming smaller

THE AYES/NOES HAVE IT (video loop work - 00:09:59 duration) is one of a series of recent video works which explore the ambivalent nature of our experience of reality. They are about looking and giving the time to look but perhaps more significantly they underline a need for critical reflection with regard to human responsibility within the cosmos. The barely perceptible colour change serves to highlight our sense of urgency to move on to the next without really acknowledging what we have just witnessed and their silence offers us a contemplative space.

Video provides for me a different kind of working space. As a drawer, I see a timeline as a continuously evolving time-based piece of paper… I can’t get behind it but I can to some extent see through it! Marks can come and go as with graphite and eraser but in this space-time, membranes or layers of visual information can sequentially reveal or obscure previous membranes. Hovering somewhere between opacity and transparency, between still and moving or between recall and prescience, this series of loop video works remind us of the fragility and irrevocability of biological balance, our dependency on this balance and the principle of self-regulation.

“She uses raw data in the form of previous and current drawings/photographs, the web and planetary science archives and processes it, creating new scapes. She builds, composites and optimises her images, to produce unfamiliar images or landscapes. Her work is best defined by its intense but delicate craftsmanship and by the transformation of the commonplace into works of art. Eames contradicts the generic and mass-produced, generating a dialogue between modernity and history, observation and fabrication, nature and urbanity and the relationship between process and idea.”
Alejandro Ball (Curator - Digital U Extremes)