Still from J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress' film The Butterfly Effect (2004)
In a way I've always been drawn to using scientific/mathematical theories in my work. When taken out of their context, and looked at in more colloquial terms, I think they can be quite poetic. The Chaos Theory, often known as the Buttefly Effect, is for me one of those examples. The fact that something small and seemingly unmeaningful, can have result in major events seems like a good basis for work. I suppose in the most simplistic of terms this is what a projection is (although, of course, not as sensitive as the dynamical systems this theory is used to assess). And I think that's somewhere I'd like to go with this. What if I made the system of projection, more variable, more sensitive to initial conditions, and perhaps less likely to result in the outcome I want. Or maybe something that only worked once in a while, when all of the conditions are right; when all of the components overlap in the right way, and the breeze stops, and the right light comes on, and the viewer stands in the correct spot. That's something I'd like to create.