Fellow Traveller

HART festival

Hand-held Dv footage of an aeroplane flying from a distance is tracked for two minutes.

The documentation of its flight through the sky becomes uncanny as the camera passes a tree, disappearing behind the sky and weaving in and out of the branches. This leaves the aeroplanes’ position within the picture plane in a state of flux, referencing the apparent visual stasis that often occurs when witnessing an aeroplane in flight. Once free of the tree, the aeroplane continues on its flight only to re-appear in the position it once started. For the aeroplane, there is no beginning or end to its journey.

The sound of the flight is relayed through two L-shaped pipes coming out of the floor with enough space to stand between them, and is triggered as the viewer approaches. Speakers in sealed units at the bottom of each pipe re-create the physicality of the turbines as the sound travels up the length of each pipe, vibrating and resonating with the stereo sound of the engine.

The sound is again transformed from a recording playback into a physical immersive presence.