Viewing Stone, 2018

Looping HD video, sound, 30:08

Directed and conceived by Christopher Richmond;

Cinematography: Colin Trenbeath; Editor: Christopher Richmond; Music: Aileen Bryant; Asteroid: Evan Walker

Courtesy of the artist

Christopher Richmond is a Los Angeles artist working in film/video, photography and drawing. He presents the image of a simulated asteroid gently pirouetting and toppling in blackness as spotlit by the sun. Seemingly a symbol for the desolate materialism of soulless space, alone and remote, without meaning, the celestial body is also like a single available volunteer to join the countless asteroidal building blocks of planets, moons and their landscapes. From these building blocks, and a star in the right place, come luscious flourishing flora and living offspring,among them inquisitive watchers of the sky and assemblers of meaning.