RETURN.TRIP.EFFECT
6:35 min, SD video, 2020
Driving around a quiet and unrecognizable New York City, I begin to lose my sense of time, place, and home.
The "return trip effect is" the unexplained phenomenon where a trip feels shorter when returning. A perceptual study of elapsed time in relation to (un)familiarity and expectation during a car ride around the COVID-19 epicenter in April of 2020.
The trip there ≠ the trip home.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" – Marcel Proust
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Group Screenings/Exhibitions:
2021 - "Anywhere But Here", Slow Burn NYC x The Canvas Bowery
2021 - "Adrift" Main Street Arts Gallery (Clifton Springs, NY)
2021 - "Bad Video Art Festival", BVAF x Gallery Bomba (Moscow, Russia)
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