{"id":450,"date":"2013-06-21T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T21:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2013-08-19T22:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:17:56","slug":"wide-film","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/film\/wide-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide (film)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face \t{font-family:Times; \tpanose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face \t{font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\"; \tpanose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; \tmso-font-charset:128; \tmso-generic-font-family:roman; \tmso-font-format:other; \tmso-font-pitch:fixed; \tmso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face \t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\"; \tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; \tmso-font-charset:1; \tmso-generic-font-family:roman; \tmso-font-format:other; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face \t{font-family:Cambria; \tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}  \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-unhide:no; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin:0in; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:Cambria; \tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\"; \tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; \tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p \t{mso-style-priority:99; \tmso-margin-top-alt:auto; \tmargin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:Times; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\"; \tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} .MsoChpDefault \t{mso-style-type:export-only; \tmso-default-props:yes; \tfont-family:Cambria; \tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d\"; \tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; \tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 \t{size:8.5in 11.0in; \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; \tmso-header-margin:.5in; \tmso-footer-margin:.5in; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 \t{page:WordSection1;}\n--><\/style>\n<p>Two days before I left New York for a residency at IPark in Connecticut I picked up an essay by Bill McKibeen that began \u201cThe hawk sat on a limb three feet above my head and did not stir as I walked under \u2013 that was the first sign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was describing his time in nature and how after being there for a bit he knew he\u2019d begun to give off calmer vibrations.\u00a0 As I boarded the train in New York city with the frenzy around me heading to IPark for the month of April 2012, it was this calm I was thinking of that ended up infiltrating my thoughts and projects realized there.<\/p>\n<p>The work focuses on the interconnection between the mind, body, nature and culture and is constructed to pull a viewer with me through a symbolic journey. Nature doesn\u2019t deal in things it deals in systems, adding information to matter. Shape is both beauty and function overlapping many systems. Thoreau\u2019s writes of culture as \u201cThe Enchanter\u201d and nature as the only way one can answer two simple yet indispensible questions; how much is enough and how do I know what I want? He felt only in nature could you truly hear your own heart, divorced from the influence of the voices of culture.<\/p>\n<p>Alchemy is a philosophical tradition from antiquity looked upon by many as both a science and a spiritual endeavor. Its experiments and inventions occur in communion with nature, invention, experimentation with the physical\/material world as well as the investigation\/externalization of self. One goal of the scientist therefore, not just material transformation but personal transmutation. It uses complex systems of symbols, individual and universal, integrating the self with the natural world to elevate consciousness. Its exploration of achieving the philosopher\u2019s stone is representative of investigation of the psyche which leads to wholeness and oneness internally through use of physical materials externally. I believe that the objects we surround ourselves with intentionally and unintentionally in our daily lives say a tremendous amount about our individual and collective psyches and my installations aim to highlight this so once the viewer leaves and enters again into their daily life \u2013 small moments of this language emerge as symbols and the art \u201cobject\u201d dissolves, leaving on the language of symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Goethe studied alchemy as well before he went on to write his famous literary works and other monumental contributions. His study and practice of alchemy contributed greatly to his development of plant morphology and extensive writings on color theory. He believed that the processes that underlie plant growth are reflected in our spiritual development as human beings. In other words, nature was not only a book of knowledge of laws of sciences and behaviors but also a book of knowledge of the individual self and the collective culture. He was an important contribution to the bridge of connection between alchemy and modern science.<\/p>\n<p>My study of these concepts resulted in this film which I made the month I was in the residency.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Photography (Cinematography): Sarah Walko<br \/>\nAdditional Footage Cinematography: Christopher Keohane<br \/>\nWritten by: (Introduction 2 lines by Bill McKibben) Sarah Walko<br \/>\nProps\/Sculptures: Sarah Walko<br \/>\nEdited by: Sarah Walko<br \/>\nMusic: Symbiosis Syndicate<br \/>\nSteve Giordano &#8211; guitar, guitar synthesizer, piano, keyboard synths and a laptop virtual synth.<br \/>\nJohn Swana &#8211; E.V.I. (electronic valve instrument)<br \/>\nBob Meashey &#8211; trumpet, flugel horn<br \/>\nJoe Mullen &#8211; percussion<br \/>\nSymbiosis various guests over the years:<br \/>\nJohn Mosemann &#8211; percussion<br \/>\nTony Micili &#8211; K.A.T. (vibes controller), laptop virtual synth<br \/>\nPeter Cobb &#8211; alto sax<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/68889868\">Click Here to Watch the Film<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Film Stills and Installation Shots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/local.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-628\" alt=\"local\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/local.jpg\" width=\"1657\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/local.jpg 1657w, http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/local-300x147.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/local-1024x503.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1657px) 100vw, 1657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mankindSM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-848\" alt=\"mankindSM\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mankindSM.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1178\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/installshotWEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-847\" alt=\"installshotWEB\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/installshotWEB.jpg\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/film\/\">BACK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days before I left New York for a residency at IPark in Connecticut I picked up an essay by Bill McKibeen that began \u201cThe hawk sat on a limb three feet above my head and did not stir as I walked under \u2013 that was the first sign\u201d. 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