Bill Viola
Hatsu Yume - First Dream
Vienna, Austria: Frameworks, 2002
40.3 by 50 cm.
Edition of 15 signed and numbered copies
In Japan, the dream one dreams in a new year is known as hatsuyume, and is said to foretell the luck of the dreamer in the coming year. It is good luck, for example, to dream of Mount Fuji, a hawk, or an eggplant.
This portfolio comprises a VHS video tape and a signed book in a clamshell box which also houses three chromogenic prints.
"I was thinking about light and its relation to water and to life, and also its opposite — darkness or the night and death. Video treats light like water — it becomes fluid on the video tube. Water supports the fish like light supports man. Land is the death of the fish — darkness is the death of man.”
- Bill Viola
Viola died yesterday, at his home in Long Beach, California, at the age of 73.
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