Endless Blue Edge
Jodie Whalen
Endless Blue Edge by multi-disciplinary artist Jodie Whalen, is a new video work created for the URL and transformed into an all-encompassing site-specific video installation for IRL. Imagery of the sky captured in Western Sydney is distorted and paired with an original soundscape to offer viewers a site to contemplate the borders of internal and external landscapes, belief and transformation.
The repetition, replication and degradation of the imagery, sounds and motifs in Endless Blue Edge is harnessed to explore how meaning moves through, and translates between forms, signifying time and transformation.
Symbols of earthly experience and liminal space become metaphors for our understating and experience of the unknown – a window into different realms of physical, metaphysical, and spiritual possibilities.
Endless Blue Edge is driven by a desire to give physical form to the intangibility of fraught emotional states such as grief, anger, fear, apathy and hopefulness. It seeks to be a site for intimacy, desire and the body experienced individually and collectively. The online work on the BLEED website is personal, intimate and introspective, whilst the onsite component of the work at Campbelltown Arts Centre is intended to be a shared experience.
Read Artist Statement
Endless Blue Edge originates from my desire to give the intangibilities of grief a physical presence. The work coalesces my own personal history and elements of popular Western culture into emotionally fraught, symbolically dense and sublime environments.
From the beginning of this project, I carried a camera with me to capture sunsets – especially those that are sublime, psychedelic, and dramatic in their colour and structure. Each sunset I documented was captured in Western Sydney and has a direct relationship with the site where the work has been developed and is presented.
When bringing the imagery of the work together, I start by composing a soundscape. This sonic narrative leads the placement of the imagery, the transitions, and what effects I use. Through this process, I am distorting images and sound to negotiate the borders between our internal and external worlds, and thus how the digital bleeds between into these spaces.
Read Artist Statement
Endless Blue Edge originates from my desire to give the intangibilities of grief a physical presence. The work coalesces my own personal history and elements of popular Western culture into emotionally fraught, symbolically dense and sublime environments.
From the beginning of this project, I carried a camera with me to capture sunsets – especially those that are sublime, psychedelic, and dramatic in their colour and structure. Each sunset I documented was captured in Western Sydney and has a direct relationship with the site where the work has been developed and is presented.
When bringing the imagery of the work together, I start by composing a soundscape. This sonic narrative leads the placement of the imagery, the transitions, and what effects I use. Through this process, I am distorting images and sound to negotiate the borders between our internal and external worlds, and thus how the digital bleeds between into these spaces.
