So looking at research to do with 24 hours. Started of with the contemporary visual artist Bill Viola who i never really research into before but have heard mentioned once by our teacher. His main themes are looking at time vs death, religion, spiritual traditions and human experiences and turning these into video installations. When looking at his work it really make you think what is happening to our lives or what is the purpose of life? When watching FIVE ANGELS i really felt the sound and image working together powerfully and creating a emotional moving and unusual kind of supernatural atmosphere from someone falling into the water. Im not too sure about completely the meaning of this work but im starting to understand a little by the way how humans have deep feelings and not being able to express them and being able to brings your deep thoughts into the world and is reflected by reversing the footage so to express this idea. Apparently he reversed the footage to so he could give the idea of birth which probably helps me to understand it more. I could keep babbling about his work and probably get even more confused than i already am, but i think this is successful piece of work as its beautiful to watch and i keep going back to his work to try to think what is the actually going on and whats the narrative behind it?
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