Slide, Diagonal and Self Possessed Group Portrait with Liminal Figures.
Text, Roberto Tejada. Classroom.
He takes a drink of water and turns a page. He looks down at the lectern.
Slide, Image. Text, Immigrant Couple.
He takes a drink of water.
Image, Six children tumble down a sand dune.
Image.
In the image a child stands outside with the town behind them. An adult runs a comb through the front of the child's hair. The child retracts slighty.
Image.
Image, Five young men.
Article.
Image, A band on stage.
He takes a drink of water. Image, A poem.
Image.
Image, A man.
Image, A cast on stage.
Image, A couple on a couch.
Image, Ruben Salazar.
Image, A protest in the streets.
He takes a drink of water. Image, A cafe in black and white.
Image, The couple on the couch.
Video, An abstract work of art that appears sketched. White and off colors predominate. In the center a kind of wilted flower or mouth passes from open to closed. It shrinks down to the bottom of the screen and floats off to the left.
The screen goes black.
The white backdrop appears. A kind of scratch goes along the top of it. The backdrop gets slightly further away.
A thick hairlike shadow crosses the backdrop. The screen goes black. The flower appears and closes. Screen goes black. A kind of twisted wooden spoon floats across the screen and the screen goes black again. The spoon floats above the closed flower. Little hairs fall from the spoon into the flower. The flower opens and tendrils explode out like long spindly fingers with finger nails on the end. The spoon dips down amongst the tendrils and retracts. Little hairs follow the spoon out.
All the hairs and tendrils go into the flower as it closes again. The spoon disappears.
The flower leaves the screen. It reappears. Multiple flowers appear and disappear. They open.
The spoon hovers above one of them that remains.
The screen blackens.
The screen very slowly regains color.
The white backdrop. A shadow approaches. The flower is now open with tendrils out. The tendrils retreat back into the flower.
Now they go out again. The screen is semi dark. They spin in upon themselves as they grow up into the air.
The tendrils shrink and go into the flower. The spoon crosses the screen.
A second spoon appears. A tendril grabs a hold of one of the spoons and pulls it in.
The flower closes upon it.
We follow the flower down.
A long serpentine stem goes down into the ground.
It turns from one side to the other and gets thicker as it goes down. It is wormlike.
Finally it reaches a sort of base with wrinkles on it.
The screen blinks.
The base is a kind of empty eye socket. It opens and we enter it. Folds of skin retreat infinitely into the socket.
A flower appears out of the socket then retreats into it.
The flower comes out of the socket.
The screen is tinted red now and splotched with black dots.
The flower raises out of the eye. Multiple flowers into a row that are open.
The screen goes black.
A Spanish phrase on screen.
He takes a drink of water.