Tim Webster

Remembrance of experience is at the core of Machu Picchu. Filmed from the same vantage point as so many other tourists, it deconstructs the single, linear time based image by presenting a fractured composite
of minute long loops layered on top of one another. Each loop depicts a different level of detail of the site so that when composed there is no postcard view – just the idea of it.

In Machu Picchu, time is folded and constantly reconfigured as the front most layer of video is forever dissolving into the background. This piece is a composition of many experiences from over an hour and a half.

The constant reconfiguring of the frames undermines our memory of it, yet instills a sense of what is there. Memory becomes an adhoc whole, composed of a myriad of leeting moments and feelings, yet always tempered by our present experience. For Machu Picchu, the motivation is to reconstruct the site in a way that seems to be disintegrating so as to mimic our own inattention to the moment itself and therefore our desire to capture it forever, for later.