Marsia Alexander-Clarke

video as mark

I call my video, video as mark, in reference to the marks found in drawing and painting. Capturing the play of light on plants the marks become slices of time interrelating across the space of the screen. They create a visual narrative which develops sequentially, like a silent, visual fugue.

Abstraction is a language that can expand a depth of poetic feeling which can communicate directly to the spiritual center of the viewer. My exploration and expansion of a digital language through subjective and poetic means can bring a strong human element to the digital emphasis of our times.

The narrow linear marks are echoes of the narrow lens through which I experience my surroundings. In a larger sense they are echoes of the limitations of human understanding. How little we know about the Universe, about nature, about ourselves. Who are we? Why are we here?