Tizzy (Zinnias)
Tizzy (Zinnias), 2010 single channel video, beeswax on wood disk, 38″ diameter
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Gushers
Gushers, 2010, single channel video with sound, speaker parts, 40″ x 54″ x 14″ This installation was inspired by my childhood experience of aquatic lillies. “Struck by how the plants co-existed with oily sheens on the waters of the Pearl River, Egan recreates the impression here. Using electronic buzzing and popping sounds the plants appear to grow from the speakers, reminding us that nature can be mimicked with technology, but, ultimately, we cannot reinvent nature.” – Lee Gray, curator, Hilliard […]
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Repercussion (Yellow Trumpet Flower)
Repercussions, 2010, single channel video with sound, wood and speaker, 11″ x 70″ x 6″ A yellow trumpet flower spins and audibly drips onto the inverted cone of a speaker below. The synchresis of image and sound evoke a physical experience of projected light.
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Early Spring
Early Spring Single channel video installation with 6 channel audio Approx. 6’ x 8’, audio and power cabling extending to ceiling 2009 “Early Spring is Egan’s largest video installation with sound to date. Using the floor of the gallery space as a screen for the projection of her hallucinatory flower image compositions to a drone-like and beat-heavy musical accompaniment broadcast by low-fi speakers, Egan takes the viewer into the space of Digital Animism, an expression she coined to describe her […]
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Soft Spots
Soft Spots (Japanese Magnolia), 2008, single channel video projection, size variable Soft Spots was created with images of a Japanese magnolia flower, a common ornamental in New Orleans. In the looping projected image, petals drop from a continually dying and re-blossoming flower. During a petal’s fall to the ground, a projectile, apparently targeting the petal, misses and sends the petal spinning or flipping, until it gently lands on the floor below. Soft Spots reflects on forces that guide and influence lives.
