Featured Artist: Eliza Swann

 

In a big yellow field with dark brown mountains in the backdrop and a bright blue sky, there are four large white satellite dishes in a neat row, each pointed in different directions.
“A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16 from Gently Ai Goes Home

 

In an area surrounded by gray stone walls are two dancers locked in a contorted pose. One dancer in a beige leotard and white wool collar and cuffs holds another dancer by one leg as they dangle upside down, using the other’s leg to prop themself up at an angle. This dancer wears a white wool mask over their head, concealing their face. Blue scarves are tied to this dangling dancer’s ankles as they are suspended in this pose.
“A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, “Light is the left hand of darkness…”

 

Two dancers in a wooded area are locked in embrace. Both are dressed in beige leotards and wear wool masks over their heads, concealing their faces. One dancer is holding the other who seems to have charged in their direction. The hold is tender even as the other dancer is in motion. They are dusted in white powder.
“A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, The Blizzard

 

Against a stone wall, two dancers wearing wool masks and beige leotards are locked in fierce embrace once again. This time, one dancer has leapt into the other’s arms, their legs nearly straddling the other body.
“A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, “I am an exile—you for my sake and I for yours.”

 

Against an electric blue background are two face masks eerily cast in pink and dark blue light. One mask has the semblance of a human face with holes for eyes and teeth. Its wire hangs over its surface. The other mask is an overlay of two faces, one of which has black eyes and lips peering up, and the other, a stonecut face that is expressionless.
“A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, Why “Men” are Not Men

 

A close-up of ice crystal fragments. It appears like cracked glass.
“A Bright Hand in Darkness”, 2014. HD Video Still, 6:16, “In the beginning there was ice and sun…”