The layers within the works are always manually constructed by projecting footage on top of itself and refilming. They are mostly done in consecutive order, only an hour or so apart, but I am interested in potentially emphasising the gap between layers, be it a different day, activity, duration etc. While importing some of this footage I was thinking about Alvin Lucier's piece I am Sitting in a Room, particularly the degradation of layers as it goes through the manual process of retransmission (visual in my case, audio in his). As it projects over itself the work begins to erase itself with the first layer becoming almost non-existent. I also found it amusing, in the attempt to paint out a screen I start to paint over the previous layer which through the white paint actually exposes the previous layer more, a bit of an oxymoron really. Also reminiscent of Lucier, the work becomes dictated by the limitations of the site is it in- I could only play back three layers before the projector backed into the parameters of the studio.
Up to date I've been working with the layers being transposed on top of each other but I am beginning to consider whether it is possible to expand horizontally rather than extending forwards. By using multiple projectors rather than a single fixed channel and allowing these to run different footage (or perhaps the same footage) at different durations resulting in the interaction between the layers happening within the projected install itself, rather than happening within the film. As the layers respond and react to each other, syncing up and falling out again there is a potential for the work to have a 'live' dialogue with itself.
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