Light and Technology, A Neo-Impressionist in the 21st Century

I am beginning a new body of video work taken with my cell phone. The pixilation and visual breakup tie into a 21st Century Neo-Impressionist motif that I find very intriguing. My working question is to link together light and technology. The opposition and similarties inherent to each create a ringing metaphoric synergy: Creation/destruction, life/death, freedom/slavery, intelligence/ignorance. I enjoy using my phone as the tool because it is the most immediate way of capturing the moments I see all around me every day. The pixilation is important to me for several reasons:

• They the medium of technology is used here in the same way that some artists keep grain in their films and brush marks in their paintings. By revealing the medium, the viewer is attached to the contexts and conotations inherent to it.
• The breakdown in the creation, I quite enjoy. The work is simultaneously created and broken down, coming into and out of form, as all life is - constantly in flux... and fleeting in its beauty.
• These discrepancies also point to the dissolution of memory. We fill in the blanks, mis-remember details while vividly recalling others.
• The generalizing of the specific form creates a more essential, architypal form; one released from a particular time and place.

I also enjoy the opposition of natural light (from the primary source in the recordings) and the artificial light coming through the computer screen or from a digital projector. A lot of these works deal with that interaction of man with nature. Where is our place as protector of the planet? Are we responsible with the light we have been given? Does our technology betray our consciousness?