2019 Advanced class pop-up exhibition

In 2050, Chloe Fillmore was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to participate in the NASA Solo Mission to Europa and was scheduled to become the first woman to complete a solo mission to discover a new planet. As the solitary member of the AOE-50-F Argo Mission, she will travel to Europa, an Earth-like planet, and send samples back home For more information visit www.highhopesvp.com

Is what we look at on the screen determined by movement or what we find aesthetically pleasing? Do we notice things because we think it’s what the artist wants us to see or do we see what our brains want us to see? When we look at photography or film are we interacting with things on our own terms or on the artist terms? Every choice that an artist makes influences his/her viewer’s ideas about the piece they are viewing. In film, everything from the camera angle to the lighting to the piece of music that is playing creates a preconceived perception that is directed towards the viewer. In this short film, the composition of each shot is the same, and yet the movement within each clip is different. The music that plays playfully reminds the viewer that everything in their mind is an abstract notion created by their brains. This video challenges the viewer by asking them what they naturally look at: do they look from left to right, do their eyes shift when there is movement on the screen, or do their eyes come to rest on what they find pleasing?

These wonderful humans wont see each other for 2 years, here's to one last dance party!

Identity defines perception: what we sense is created by our respective pasts. The wind in our hair and the crackle of leaves beneath our feet on an autumn morning; the way the fire glints and whispers as a winter day fades to night; the feeling of gliding under the water, weightless, watching the sun’s rays dance across the waves; the grittiness of dirt between our fingers, filtering and falling to the ground - all these sensations connect us to memories buried deep within us, memories that define who we are as individuals and inform our actions even in the present. For this exhibition, I encouraged five people close to me to investigate their individual relationships to the elements, using them as a medium through which to interview and to observe my subjects. I asked them to be vulnerable and honest with me and with themselves, to use these opportunities to dive into who they are and why they are that way.

Identity defines perception: what we sense is created by our respective pasts. The wind in our hair and the crackle of leaves beneath our feet on an autumn morning; the way the fire glints and whispers as a winter day fades to night; the feeling of gliding under the water, weightless, watching the sun’s rays dance across the waves; the grittiness of dirt between our fingers, filtering and falling to the ground - all these sensations connect us to memories buried deep within us, memories that define who we are as individuals and inform our actions even in the present. For this exhibition, I encouraged five people close to me to investigate their individual relationships to the elements, using them as a medium through which to interview and to observe my subjects. I asked them to be vulnerable and honest with me and with themselves, to use these opportunities to dive into who they are and why they are that way.