Blue Lunar Eclipse 

video installation
4'd x ~15h', 20 min. loop
2024

Blue Lunar Eclipse   is comprised of footage from tide pools superimposed on the dark side of the moon. Visitors lie on cushions and gaze up at the moon, which is alive with undersea exuberance. 

Our oceans lie below what we think of as "ground level." They are always below us, underfoot. This leads to our treating the oceans as trash bins. In their vastness, they swallow whatever we toss down, out of sight, out of mind.    

The heavens are also vast, but we treat them as ethereal, majestic, home of the gods. They are above us. True, we have also filled the heavens with space junk. It seems that nothing is beyond our trashing. But in general, the stars are a place for positing wishes and glorious afterlives.

But for a moment in Blue Lunar Eclipse , the oceans live in the heavens, bringing these two worlds together in a slow meditation. Indeed, they're already linked in rhythm, light, and gravity. But here they become visually entwined, elevating the ocean's flowers to the expansive lunar sky.

Images from Blooming Hallucination (Technology as Nature) curated by Miguel Novelo for 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA