Recognition
Coker works with video as an extension of photography and its ability to engage the memory and imagination through the evocation of time and place. (Title) is an interactive, sculptural play on traditional portraiture. In size, format, subject, and color palette, it resembles a painted portrait. The image displayed is that of the user, processed and time-smeared just to the point where it is not completely recognizable as that of the viewer. At some points during the processing cycle, the image is abstracted to that of pure color fields.