Bill Viola

the eye of the heart
Bill Viola and the making of emergence
Going forth by day
Traditional
personal experiences,
The first light a human being sees- newborns
The ardent of seeing.
The beginning of knowing.
Memoria
Long beach, California
Jack Nelson
Experimental studios
In version
Rainbow video
Cycles1973
Smile for the millennium
The space between the teeth
The sound of wind in the car windows echo
Past experience- sinking, beautiful world.
Peaceful. He didn't want to come up.
This makes me think did he want to die, did he actually realise he was in danger- i think this must of scared him for life.
The passing 1991
He videos his mother on her death bed- past experience.
(security and control)
Back to work 1 month after his mother passed
his project now consisted of showing birth and death.
Heaven and earth 1992
Nantris tryptic
Universal experiences,
Mother giving birth
inner and outer world
vision, mountains, meditating.
art of being alive.
The crossing
men on fire
idea evolving in his life
water poorer, peace formed in the unconscious mode .
metaphor for bringing peace to yourself healing the heart rather then the body
connection of people
observance