In all the sex we’re not having the camera is located at the heart of nature, ostensibly delving into its depths. The silence all around and the lingering gaze make it possible to feel nature’s pulse, to feel at one with it and peruse the fine relationship woven within it. The blowing wind creates light movement and trembling in the frame. Jacobson moves between exterior and interior, paralleling the tranquil touches in nature to a slow caressing of the body which appears at once erotic and disturbing.

The video Aspens was created, according to the artist, in homage to the Futurist movement in art. It explores the relationship of a screened image with speed and movement. The camera passes swiftly along a snowy aspen forest in Colorado; the frozen branches shimmer against the backdrop of the blue sky, generating constant motion and vibration. Jacobson focuses on the individual image while changing the shooting pace which guides the image through a changing, cyclical chain of situations. The image runs at accelerated rate until it becomes an abstract flickering, and so on.

Jodie Vicenta Jacobson (1977) was born in Colorado. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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