South Western Landscapes

Sky High 3 min.
Low Ride 3 min.
Somersault 5 min.
Rest 2:30 min.
Photographic Memory 5 min.
In South-Western Landscapes, Steina uses mechanical and electronic devices to physically explore the New Mexican landscape, a phenomenological exploration that allows the viewer to enter this environment from new perspectives. In Sky High, she attaches a mirrored sphere high above a moving vehicle; in Low Ride, the landscape is seen and felt from the perspective of a few inches off the ground, crashing through fields on the front of a car; in Somersault, Steina has the mirrored globe and camera somersault around her, allowing it to calmly view the surroundings in a hammock in Rest. Photographic Memory is an ethereal study of the colors and textures of the landscape of the Southwest.