Eric and Eric is an interdisciplinary art project that explores how video and sculpture can work together to communicate a single concept. The sculptural component consists of a life-size plaster figure sleeping in a bed, made with real bed sheets and pillows, all of which is mounted on a wall. A video, of the same image and composition, is then projected onto the white sculpture. As the video image wraps around the three-dimensional sculptural form, the illusion of a three-dimensional hologram is created.


     As the video plays, a second figure enters the bed, which introduces a relationship between the two men seen. As the second man struggles to fall asleep, the first remains motionless, not even aware of his lover's presence. Instead of a loving connection, notions of isolation and loneliness are felt. Like the relationship between the video and sculpture, the two men come together in hopes of a mutual bond, but they don't quite fit.

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© 2008 Owen Eric Wood