Moving through West Texas by train, a meditative visual experience is altered by accounts of violence in historical El Paso and contemporary Juarez. Installed for the East Austin Studio Tour November 21-22 at Eddy-on-Haskell.
title: El Paso Redux
medium: single channel video with audio 14 min 18 sec
release date: 2009
credits:
concept, guitar, voice, video, editing, mixing: sybil m
©2009 all rights reserved
title: 1989 Dream (Marfa) medium: single channel video with audio 5 min 09 sec release date: 2009 credits: concept, guitar, voice, video, editing, mixing: sybil m video shot in marfa, texas, 2008 audio track recorded in austin, texas 2009 ©2009 all rights reserved
and the words are:
I'm in a farmyard, surrounded by cows, white dogs that look like huskies. Whooping cranes are in the air. The farmer is shooting them. As each falls among the cattle, he chants "That's a one kill." "That's a two kill." "That's a three kill." "That's a four kill." He walks among the cattle, retrieves the dead birds, throws them in a heap. The dogs lie on top of them, waiting, smelling the warm dead bodies. The dog's expressions are hopeful, patient - doglike. Suddenly, people appear and take on the expressions of the dead birds. They look surprised and dignified.
