Fainting

(Excerpt of full 2:53 min video)

The inspiration for this video came when my grandmother died 10 years ago and was brought back to life 5 minutes later. She said she visited heaven and proceeded to tell me all about it. Since that time I have tried to get as close to the edge of the divine as possible. This is a game we used to play as children. One of us would hold our breath and the other would choke us until we fainted. Then, as our blood deprived brains were dying the little death, we would travel time seamlessly, sometimes weeks into the future. This is the physical document of that slipstream eternal moment.

Fainting: The Collapse
oil on canvas, 2008
30x30 inches

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Fainting: The Grasp
oil on canvas, 2008
30x30 inches

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