"Island"

An island can be a solution to land-shortage problems, an escapist sanctuary, a place of exile for the banished, a symbol of exotic "otherness". Islands are screens upon which the human psyche projects its hopes and fears, which is why utopian stories have so often been set on them.

"Island" was an installation for the first Bay Area International Arts Festival ("Bayennale"), which took place during July and August of 2005. It floated in San Francisco Bay, in the channel between Oakland and Alameda, just off Jack London Square. Mounted on the island was a video camera, which broadcast to a video monitor in a viewing station on the shore. From this station, one could see one's self from the island's perspective.

"Island" explored the human desire for the things that islands represent, as well as the shadow--the human impulse to create dystopia. How the desires we project upon islands can never be fulfilled. And, it examined the way that we look at islands from the outside, and recognize ourselves looking in.