Michael John Whelan
Video Installation
Film
Photography
Objects
Paper & Sound
Info
News
Frontier
Now the shadows I measure
An echo and a shadow
Mercer
Baribal
The sun shone on the
nothing new

Reprieve
A Perfect Circle
Assembly
Kindred
Clearing
Since
The Memoirs of a Madman
And penance is the play
Cathedral
Clearing
2007
single channel video, colour, silent
11:00 min
(2/2) Back




The vacuum of black darkness is repeatedly interrupted by the presence of a farmers tractor fitted with spotlights. The constant action repeats, criss crossing the frame until the end where the lights are then turned onto the viewer, breaking the pattern of absence/presence.