Brandon Morse

Walking down in Dupont Circle it was bright. The sun was gracious enough to shine its light that day. Entering the Brandon Morse Exhibit I experienced a different kind of brightness. The walls in the room were completely white and I believe the floor and the ceiling were too. It was generally a quite exhibit with no recognizable sounds. Little did I know until I had checked around a bit, the artist had composed a piece that was playing in the exhibit that to me seemed like ambient sound. Building whispers of airconditioning and pipes. When I did realize it was a composition of sounds I was not impressed by its sound,but more impressed by the fact that it was so convincing that it was not made up noise. The name of the piece, also the name of the exhibit was "Static". This title fits with the work of the artist because Brandon Morse seems to make art that studies the pattern of randomevents, if there is such a pattern.
Black and white was a strong theme. The first piece you saw upon entering was cllled 'Run to Ground'. This piece to me wasn't so exciting. It was static slowly traveling across five screens. Not to engagable in my opinion. Two other pieces really caught my attention. They were Spinnaker and The Big Bang. Spinnaker was shot from a projection. 3D modeled lines mimicing a web would slowly decend and collect at the bottom. This was a program Brandon created to ensure that nothing happened differently but by the computer's choice. There was something eerie but cool about how the model moved. The Big Bang was composed of four screens. It has the same concept as Spinnaker, but everything is coming from the center of all four screens. Again lines alone make up the visual. There are so many that at times it looks perposfully animated to look like it has that many lines and little space. This piece put me in awe.