Deep Ends

2016; 5 minutes; Sound design by Stephen Farrell; Shot at Oak Street Beach, Chicago Deep Ends suggests a tension between carefree buoyancy, vulnerability, and inherent risk. Water on the edge of an urban landscape invites crowds, and shot from a long distance, the scene strangely oscillates between leisure fun and the aftermath of a disaster. Deep Ends is part of The Humors, a fourpart video collage series exploring urban dispositions. Note on The Humors: Ancient Greek philosophers wrote of four temperaments (or humors) that color all of creation: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. Urbanity is part of this creation, and also embodies versions of these dispositions. The Humors suggests urban behaviors and relationships, those of people and of the built environment itself.