2 Channel HD Video
6 Min 43 Seconds
Edition of 3+1AP
2011

Tow is a two channel video projection featuring a large iceberg hauled though the ocean using a bright pink rope. Only the left channel is active at first, a peaceful scene of a glaciated Arctic fjord with several icebergs floating around the foreground and snowy mountains in the distance. The scale of the landscape is so immense and the icebergs so small that it is impossible to immediately realize that one of them moves unnaturally through the water towards the camera.  When the right channel commences, a close up perspective of the moving iceberg as shot from the stern of a large vessel appears.  This view reveals in great detail the largeness of the iceberg, its struggle against the wake of the ship, and the fragility of the pink rope lassoed around it. Tension builds as resistance intensifies with the ship's increasing speed, leaving the viewer to wonder how long these opposing natural and human forces will contend with one another, and which one will ultimately win.