Cold In the Sun (2012)
Cold In the Sun reflects on an experience that I shared with my father. As his dementia worsened, he could be found either in silence or mumbling to himself. “Cold in the sun,” was one of those phrases. In this video, I reenact some of the phrases that my father would mumble as if they were a series of flashbacks.
Through the use of Delaunay triangulation, the video gradually abstracts itself as my father gets deeper into his memories. Delaunay triangulation is a method of computational geometry that can be used to model complex surfaces without having to measure the exact dimensions of all the points of that surface. It is typically used to model terrains where only some points of altitude are known. In this case I assume the role of my father and attempt to reenact some of his mannerisms. Although I did not know much about him, I do have a few data points from which to model his behavior.