Using animation, heat-sensitive camera footage from U.S. border patrol screens, military bombing drone monitors and other collected footage, Maelstroms is a reflection on the dehumanizing use of image technology in modern practices.
Rhythms of the mundane become a meditation on leisure, work, and time. As the visual cycle repeats – passengers load, unload, reload, boats arrive, depart, arrive – the reading of the Italian ferryboat schedule – town names, times, and departures – morphs from announcement to chant, boats transform, deconstruct, and twist into a mindscape, rendering the unseen, the errata, seen.
