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Synopsis What happens when the images take over? Every day we are bombarded by images. Our eyes are real estate coveted by the media-driven culture in which we live. Our field of view overflows with visual entertainment and advertisements that have grown to become more important than our own memories and experiences. We become overwhelmed with stimuli that often has no relevance to our lives. Still, we struggle to find meaning in the images we see. Desperate to connect, we find ourselves appropriating this artificially-constructed culture as our own. The stages of our lives segmented into episodic time slots. Our interactions mimicking staged events we've seen somewhere before. All we want is to be part of the picture. In the end, we become imitations of life. Owen Eric Wood's Holobomo looks at the notion of appropriation in relation to life in a society over saturated with images. He struggles to find a personal connection with the images he sees by attempting to place himself inside film footage. Since all of the appropriated material in Holobomo comes from Mike Hoolboom's "Imitations of Life," which itself is composed entirely of borrowed or found footage, Wood is in a sense re-appropriating the footage he uses. By doing so, he emphasizes the decomposition of context as meaning is recycled and reinterpreted. |
