SM/Landscape, 2004
Dual monitor video, DVD format

In his video project Darmawan translates and reproduces the effect of both mental and physical 'drifting.' The piece consists of two simultaneous and adjacent video streams; the interior of a grocery store and a sun drenched landscape of undulating hills and valleys. However, Darmawan’s focus is not on these seemingly different 'scapes,' but rather on the camera’s movement through them. The camera eye/I cuts a seamless and monotonous path through both; (re)producing the tension between our selective attention to detail and our experience of the abstract flow of time as we mender through our daily lives.
(Text by Amanda Rath)