Around Osprey is a two-screen projection based on our artist residency with the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast in Osprey, FL, 2018.
We have created two elements. Element A, is a series of 12 poetic videos and relates to our explorations in and around Osprey. Element B is a real-time reading of a data sets that uses information collected from red tide events. K. Brevis, the algae responsible for the phenomenon, releases toxins that can affect humans, birds, fish and sea mammals. The summer of 2018 was punctuated by a series of red tides that killed many fish. The data was entered by day and location on 16 South Florida beaches over a twelve-month timespan. When the counts are low, there is little-to-no change in the moving pictures. When the counts are higher, the images take on corresponding degrees of red tint and temporal shifts that show up as blurriness.