Artist: Seth / Ezra Dager
Year: 2026
Medium: Three-channel digital video installation
Status: Complete
Archive Context: The Field Archive

Overview

Return I is part of the Zooms video series, examining how perception changes through distance, duration, and sustained attention. Across three simultaneous recordings, the work follows a journey between New York City and The Rigley Field, holding arrival and departure within the same temporal field.

Unlike earlier works in the series, each recording completes a full cycle. The camera slowly approaches its subject before gradually returning to its original distance, repeating this movement continuously throughout the work.

The field breathes.

Approach.

Return.

Approach again.

Although the recordings begin together, each loop unfolds at a slightly different duration. As time passes, their rhythms drift apart, forming new relationships before briefly returning to alignment.

Movement is no longer one direction.

It becomes recurrence.

The accompanying Data Frame introduces the work’s sonic field through a single soundtrack, inviting viewers to recreate the durational conditions under which the work was assembled.

Position

Zooms - Return I demonstrates that return is never a return to the same place.

Distance changes.

Context changes.

The movement remains.