Air II
Air II
Ruth Stenstrom (2010, 5:30 minutes)
Air II is intended to be one of a series video installations with original music on the themes of Air, Water, Light.
Water Mandalas and Expunge are a part of this meditative exploration.
All were premiered in October, 2010 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Images in this excerpt were filmed in Trouville and Paris, France; Kassel, Germany at Documenta; Amsterdam and Venice, Italy in 2008 and 2009, and in New York City and upstate New York in 2010,
with production assistance by Denzil Spicer.
Click here to see full screen on youtube.
The field of poppies was actually an art installation at Documenta of two kinds of poppies that are cultivated in the third world for the manufacture of heroin, an ironic commentary on devastating impact in the world economy of such impressionistic beauty.
Portions of this project were funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.