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

Overview

Sky II is the companion work to Sky I within the Zooms video series, examining how perception changes through distance, duration, and sustained attention. Across five simultaneous recordings, recognizable fragments of sky and the surrounding built environment gradually recede until they dissolve back into the broader field.

Each recording begins in close proximity before slowly zooming outward from its subject. Once the movement concludes, the recordings continue looping independently for the remainder of the work.

Recognition is only temporary.

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 recognition back into observation.

Position

Zooms - Sky II demonstrates that distance can remove what proximity once revealed.

Context makes the image visible.

Time quietly returns it to the field.