3 Stills from Zoom-Animation

Ascent: Passing the Light [Animation]

Back from his residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts Nathaniel Bobbitt has prepared a new installation and web-based Grief Project.The following imagery appears in a movie premiered (Nov. 13, 1998) at the Sixth Sonic Circuits Festival (New Media) Minneapolis, Minnesota. Audio and Dance elements of this project are provided by collaborators of "Casting a Shadow" Eric Lyon (IAMAS Japan) and Phyllis Douglass (The Bridge Dance Theatre, Los Angeles). This project is based on the events of the Teenage Shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, where Nathaniel Bobbitt was a resident.

The images in this scene are part of the ascent sequence (in the Healing-Grief Process) as a viewer reaches toward an interactive pond (healing pond). The combination of the intimacy of hand gestures and the monumentality of the environment create a "Votive Environment" which sets the stage for the Turning Point and the Renewal Phases in Grief. The visitor to this website-interactive movie is guided by the healing hands of an African Dancer (Phyllis Douglass)

Special thanks to Steeg, Jean Sinclair, and Don Latarski (Crescent Studios). Sarah Berger remains working hard on Grief as part of Iconographic Landscape. She placed the seed for this project in my head. Glass Video Installation