This 66 minute experimental video by Velez examines how we confront aging and decay. It is an impressionistic road movie where the viewer travels through a literal and figurative landscape of aging human faces, towns, and landscapes. This project was made with support from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) via Harvestworks.
Through rich imagery and an acute sense of visual metaphor, Edin Velez, one of the pioneers in video art, has consistently expanded the paradigms of the genre. Velez’s work in video and photography has always relocated the fabric and rhythms of a culture in the gestures and rituals of everyday life. Eschewing a conventional narrative voice, he orchestrates a confluence of associative elements to evoke, rather than analyze, the textures of a specific culture. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the School of Fine Arts of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.