Eclipse
Eclipse
Artist
Susannah Sayler
(born 1969)
Artist
Edward Morris
(born 1971)
Date2014
MediumSite-responsive video installation with spatial sound design, video loop with audio
DimensionsDuration: 7 minutes, 5 seconds
Dimensions variable and adaptable based on chosen method of projection
Dimensions variable and adaptable based on chosen method of projection
ClassificationsTime-Based Media
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2024.63
Accession number
2024.63
On View
Not on viewLabel TextEclipse commemorates the passenger pigeon—whose once massive population darkened the skies for hours but which went extinct over 100 years ago. John James Audubon likened this phenomenon to a “noonday eclipse.” Artist duo Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris created this work in commemoration of this lost species as a flock ascending up and out of the frame. Working in collaboration with Matthew Patterson Curry, the work’s soundscape layers first-hand accounts of the disorienting experience of the passenger pigeon flocks flying overhead from people who witnessed the phenomenon.
Eclipse conmemora a la paloma migratoria, cuya población, que en su día fue tan numerosa que oscurecía el cielo durante horas, se extinguió hace más de 100 años. John James Audubon comparó este fenómeno con un “eclipse del mediodía”. El dúo de artistas, Susannah Sayler y Edward Morris, creó esta obra en conmemoración de esta especie perdida, representada como una bandada que asciende y sale del encuadre. En colaboración con Matthew Patterson Curry, el paisaje sonoro de la obra superpone relatos de primera mano de la desorientadora experiencia de las bandadas de palomas migratorias volando sobre sus cabezas, narrados por personas que presenciaron el fenómeno.
