Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this video I used analog mixers and a circuit bent HDMI converter to create the glitch work on a photograph I took of a Virgin Mary statue in an abandoned theme park in Putney, Vermont called Santa’s Land. I juxtaposed this imagery with sampled clips from a video on wiki leaks uploaded in 2010 of U.S. Apache helicopters killing journalists in Iraq. The contrast of the blue and green tint tells a narrative. The green stands for unreal and the blue stands for reality. The green tint takes on the images of the Virgin Mary because the United States claims to be a Christian nation, "One nation under God" although it contradicts nonviolent Christian practices, such as the killing of innocent people. The corrupt signal and the glitching represents a society that is in a battle between artist's technology and military technology as they compete to influence society. The soldier that leaked the Apache helicopter footage is a political prisoner.
In this video I used analog mixers and a circuit bent HDMI converter to create the glitch work on a photograph I took of a Virgin Mary statue in an abandoned theme park in Putney, Vermont called Santa’s Land. I juxtaposed this imagery with sampled clips from a video on wiki leaks uploaded in 2010 of U.S. Apache helicopters killing journalists in Iraq. The contrast of the blue and green tint tells a narrative. The green stands for unreal and the blue stands for reality. The green tint takes on the images of the Virgin Mary because the United States claims to be a Christian nation, "One nation under God" although it contradicts nonviolent Christian practices, such as the killing of innocent people. The corrupt signal and the glitching represents a society that is in a battle between artist's technology and military technology as they compete to influence society. The soldier that leaked the Apache helicopter footage is a political prisoner.
