Hi Billy! I've thrown a few bits and pieces together for you to look at.
They are still disconnected pieces of the puzzle (video excerpts, still photography, light boxes and text) that will eventually make up Periphery, so I did have to add some information for you, because the artwork in its current, disassembled state does not speak for itself yet.
Periphery 1 Minute Excerpt
This is an excerpt of a longer sequence consistent of discarded or faulty video footage from several porno shoots I was hired to edit, as well as peripheral moments when the DP didn't switch of the camera and just kept shooting incidental material. The music score I composed myself.
Periphery 1 Minute Excerpt
This is a sample of collected sounds, shifting away from the visuals and focussing on the peripheral audio instead.
In my late 20's I saw an ad for a porn audio and I decided to go and record the experience. I sill have the 11 page diary entry and some of the text...
... is the actual dialogue of the audition, which is re-enacted here in an excerpt of a film I directed (and acted in) 20 years ago. Part of the movie will be featured in Periphery.
There are also 36 short stories (for a lack of a better word), each in one way or another connected to sexuality, early fascination with pornography by the age of 12, becoming involved in the porn business, working as an escort etc. These stories currently each exist as a 1-page text in tandem with one or more images. Some will end up as part of the film, read by a female VO (who is already cast) accompanied by footage I've shot over the past 25 years. Below is a sample:
I kept the pendant as a talisman and wore it on several porn shoots. I also gave it to various actresses in some of the films I've directed, since each of the characters I wrote for them was connected to me or a part of myself.
These are two of my favourite stills, which I want to blow up large and get framed. There is a plethora of other images and I'm in the process of editing them down to a manageable amount.
The light boxes you already know, at least some of them. Here you can also see that on the side of some of them I've transferred some of the contracts the adult performers had to sign before the shoot. And one of the long, monolith like boxes is showing both excepts from the script's dialog as well as the insane shooting schedules for the porn shoots.
So, ultimately my goal is quite a bit of world building here. The project is terribly ambitious and I'm freaked out by my own hubris here... but if done right, Periphery should fill several rooms with an interconnected story-grid consisting of videos, stills, diary entries and audio experiences, giving the spectator a deep dive into a decade spanning auto-fiction based artwork.
There's more, but I don't want to inundate you with too much all at once.
Talk soon.
