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and beneath these clouds From November 16, 2023 to January 20, 2024

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Library and Archives Canada images of CAE flight simulator. (Photo: CAE)

 

Past work The Far Far Splendour (2020)

 
 

The Heedless Unlimited (2023) — 3 min. 22 sec., 4k video loop with sound

An AI-assisted infinite zoom in on the CCTV recording of the plane crashing into a flight simulator, set to the expanded audio of the 9-1-1 caller’s utterance: “Plane Crash.” From speculative reverie to psychedelic apotheosis, The Heedless Unlimited marks the limit of abstraction I arrived at during the development of and beneath these clouds. As the project advanced, my interest in cinema and simulation were drawn away from the undulating forms and infinite gyre of AI's interpolated pixels toward the sharp lineation of a gifted propeller blade in macro, a more exact object upon which to consider the forensic gaze that is in tension throughout the project.
 
 

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Past work Islands (2022)

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In 2006, following journalism school, Poole traveled to Nepal to begin an internship at a daily newspaper in Kathmandu. After arriving, he discovered that the internship was not what it had claimed to be and, instead, trekked to Everest base camp. Over the course of the trek, he heard many stories about those who died in their attempt to climb the mountain. When Poole’s path crossed the wreckage of a helicopter that had crashed two years prior, he collected a distorted scrap of aluminum from the debris as a memento mori—as a reminder of “the remoteness and austerity of the landscape, heightened by the sense that death pervaded everything.”  Only recently, while starting to work on this project, did Poole realize how significant this gesture was to his practice, and so began to look for images of the crash.