Artist: Seth / Ezra Dager
Year: 2025–2026
Medium: Five-channel digital video installation
Status: Complete
Archive Context: The Field Archive

Overview

Sky I is part of the Zooms video series, a body of work examining how perception changes through distance, duration, and sustained attention. Across five simultaneous recordings, distant fragments of sky and the surrounding built environment gradually resolve into recognizable forms through slow optical movement.

Each recording begins at a distance before zooming inward toward its subject. Once the movement concludes, the recordings continue looping independently for the remainder of the work.

Recognition is only the beginning.

Although all five loops begin together, each unfolds at a slightly different duration. As time passes, the synchronized composition slowly drifts apart. Images that once aligned begin forming new relationships as their rhythms continually separate and reconnect.

The subjects do not change.

Only their relationships do.

The work gradually shifts from an act of observation into an experience of duration.

Position

Zooms - Sky I demonstrates that recognition is never fixed.

Context makes the image visible.

Time continually reorganizes it.