Crossed - Spatial Video

infrastructure and waste

This video explores the exciting story of a mysterious box floating down the Missouri River, and its semi-organic nature. It was created in Spring of 2020, and was featured in a collaboration with Night Lights Denver, which is an urban projection project which aims to “become ‘the people’s projector,’ encouraging Denver to participate and contribute – including the international, national and locally-based artists we pay for commissioned artworks, schools and people walking through the district. Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, Orange Barrel Media and the Daniels & Fisher Tower.”

The video does not have sound, as there is no speakers for it to play from when presented on the Daniels & Fisher Tower.

The concept of the video was born out of the distance from Denver, where I went to school, and my home in St. Louis. During Covid-19, when producing this video, I wanted to highlight an aspect of Missouri that I loved, and present it in a place, Denver, where that kind of environment is foreign. So I focused on big, wide shots of the box with plenty of the riverbank and bridge around it, trying to highlight the greenery which is so rare in Colorado. These rivers in Missouri, however, are dirty, both because they have muddy water, and because a lot of barges and trash find their way into them. This is what motivates the idea of the box as this living garbage that can breathe, grow trees, and teleport between dimensions. It is fighting to stay apart from nature, but ultimately succumbs to rotting away.