Project 2: Site and Projection
Proposal

For this project, I began planning my projection after I found an interesting site. An electrical box, about five feet tall, stands just outside the forest to the right of Montgomery Hall's entrance (see picture on right). The box was camoflauged to blend into the foliage, but its flat form still sticks out noticeably I thought the placement of the box in relation to the forest was interesting, an almost contradictory combination of the natural and the manmade. Moreover, I thought the placement of the box in the forest placed it in dialogue with earlier occupants of the woods, such as Native American peoples. I wanted to project this contradiction of modernity and earlier native life onto the box, allowing the imagery representing each period to shift in and out of focus, one morphing into the other. When the end product is projected onto the box, I hope the viewer will meditate upon the ways that the two forms of imagery inform one another, and consider how the relationship of periods and cultures relate to the box itself.