Counting Moons, 2019
Site-specific video installation on Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, May 18–20, 2019,
hand scratched and hole-punched 16mm film, re-recorded and edited digitally,
4 min 47 sec (35 sec excerpt)
The Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in San Francisco–the city where I was born.
It was completed in 2018, built on ground subject to potential liquefaction, and marks
the skyline as if it has been here all along.
In this site-specific video, a moon, made through hole punches into every 29th frame of a
a 16mm film strip, circles the tower’s four sides to materialize a cycle that will outlast
San Francisco: the recurring full moon.