Noyes Museum of Artat Stockton CollegeOceanville, NJNatalie McKeever: ruinsVideo Selects SeriesFeb 3 - March 4, 2012
A frame of the artist's 8mm family film, by chance, catches in the projector as it is being played, and begins to burn. The image of her maternal Grandfather is suspended in time as the expanding, luminescent circle is digitally manipulated to loop back and forth continuously. The sound of the projector is slowed down to an echoing repetition. The resulting short loop recalls an otherworldly heartbeat and the deteriorating aesthetics of memory.