July 2019 / In Our Absence

In Our Absence

Paula Rebsom
Amjad Faur

July 05 – 27, 2019
Opening Reception / Thursday, July 11, 6–8pm
Closing Reception / Thursday, July 27, 2–5pm

Armed with infrared motion-sensor camera traps, Amjad Faur and Paula Rebsom will set out to explore what transpires in settings they each feel intimately connected to when they are not there. For Amjad this place is a hunting reserve just south of Olympia, WA called Scatter Creek where he takes his dog on a daily five-mile walk, rain or shine without exception. For Paula this place starts in her backyard in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle and extends out a 1-mile radius, a distance she can safely walk with her dog and
three year old in a backpack carrier.

While the cameras will be in different locations, they will be set to collect time-lapse photos at the same interval each day (in addition to their motion sensing capabilities) to form connections between the two vastly different settings and lives that we live. This work is inherently experimental in nature. We are seeking to make new discoveries, to find answers to questions we don’t yet know, to find parallels between experiences. For the exhibition at SOIL we will experiment with video projections, field recordings, and possible sculptural renditions of the images to further confound the worlds that exist in our absence.