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baltimore, landscape, graphite

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Drawn on tracing paper in ink and graphite, Black Windows is a hand crafted portrait of a city with few occupants. Based on the city of Baltimore, the film begins with a small roach roaming between cracked, abandoned architecture. While insects and rodents pass freely from interior to exterior, a young couple stares from their window into the shadows of their neighborhood. The perspective spirals outward, where above, the a police-helecopter watches over the city.

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These three essays connect disparate parts of human experience, merging together to form one non-linear piece. Whether through modern cinema, as expressed by Lars Von Trier's "Dogville," the ancient art of Japanese Enso painting, or the ubiquitous experience of staring at the moon, we confront individuality in comparison to larger groups. Our perception of the self is determined by sensory experience alone. Yet what exists in between the sensations? What can we glean from the void?

An extended artist-statement, this essay chronicles three branches of observation.