Amida

Since the early seventies, Daniel Reeves has worked as an artist in sculpture, poetry, film and video. Since 1982 he has been working on the development of ‘video poetics,’ exploring personal, political and spiritual themes.Reeves approaches the issues of life and death through a meditation on light and dark, a minute observation of movement and stillness. The force of life and the inevitability of change, even violent change and decay, emerge from Reeves’s glittering collage of slow-motion, natural images. A glass shattering on a table and a statue of Buddha falling into swirling water suggest the Buddhist doctrine of the impermanence of life, that it cannot be contained but is forever moving on.