MONUMENTS

Project Description

Breckenridge International Festival of Arts
three channel synchronised video projection,
existing trees, community members

MONUMENTS represent a haunting synergy between the human form, natural environment and the act of viewing. Moving images transform trees throughout the town of Breckenridge into sculptural monuments surveying the immediate environment. The work aims to challenge traditional expectations of public monuments and the selective history represented in our civic spaces. Cleverly deconstructing its own definition by humanising the monument, there is a temporary fusion of everyday individuals with other living species occupying shared areas. Undermining the permanent historical and public art models so often controlled by subjective motivations, Monuments recognises the infinite contributions which influence our understanding of place. Monuments, Breckenridge featuring three local subjects—historian Maureen Nicholls, biking enthusiast Jeff “Westy” Westcott and dancer Zoe Gallup