Video, sound, polylactic acid, resin, automotive paint. Each: 7” x 8” x 10” (17.78 x 20.32 x 25.4 cm) 6 mins 56 seconds total
Oil on glass animates the “object in mirror” handwriting throughout, along with the interspersed hearts, animated by hand and blended over video radiating from the center in a very girly highway hypnosis pattern, along with a hook on a chain swinging back and forth like a hypnotist pendulum.
When the passenger side mirrors begin, mirror one shows Botox injections, and mirror two shows a video of a classic car repair using Bondo to fix the dents and imperfections on the car surface. This repair video is overlaid with one of the artist smearing bondo-colored clay facemasks where the car's dent/repair is taking place.
These fade into footage of driving with views from the passenger side mirror, glinting sun, and receding signs into a more surreal non-window view of LA with palm trees, wrecking balls at construction sites, and reflections on the asphalt of the sunset, bright lights in fog.
Thinking a lot about looking, looking again, perception, and growing older in a place. My idea of the female body, Black women's beauty, and zoning out about deep things in traffic.