Ray Sreshthaputra

Beyond The Hill is a multimedia video piece composed of re-interpreted found imagery, ambient sounds, color intensity waveforms, and found text, presented in a three-screen multichannel video. The found images are taken from newspapers and books before being scanned, abstracted, and cropped into a video format. The text gives context to the photographs and alludes to the disharmony that exists within society and how we interact with our natural environment. In today’s media-saturated world, it seems we have reached a point of fatigue, whereby the images of environmental damage circulating through our lives become normalized in the midst of the overwhelming amount of images many of us consume on a day-to-day basis. These images find a new place within the space of this audiovisual installation. Video link: vimeo.com/547283514.