Kansas Atlas

A fourchannel video installation featuring original footage shot primarily from a birds eye view of the Kansas town known as the geographical center of the US as a way to reflect upon what the artist considers a metonymy for the country as a whole Doubleprojection imagery of the aerial shots of this landscape at times forming abstract and stereoscopelike compositions become closeups on grotesque monuments and sculptures as the camera descends to ground level Additionally two iPads both contained within glass domes each play a video of one of two houses that sit directly opposite each other in a residential Topeka neighborhood One is the headquarters of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church with its antiLGBTQ signs and other hatefilled rhetoric the second is the Equality House which was formed later as a direct response with its rainbow colors and messages of peace and acceptance Microscope Gallery