John Conomos

Leftquote Let there always be on our doorstep this immense dawn called the sea. Rightquote
Saint-John Perse
Lake George (after Mark Rothko), 2007
24 minutes, Mini DV



An homage to Mark Rothko, and also in the long take cinema tradition (specifically Jean-Marie Straub and the late Daniele Huillet’s Too Early, Too Late [1982]), a landscape video about the ‘disappearing’ lake located outside Canberra, Australia. This work is in two versions; Installation and Essay (forthcoming).