FILM

Flowers flutter in a tank of water, where they spin, flicker, merge, come apart, then back together. Mack’s long-standing admiration of material ephemera is explored in her most recent 16mm film. She integrates and transforms botanical forms previously encountered throughout works such as Wasteland N. 2: Hardy Hearty (2019), Wasteland N. 3: Moons, Sons (2021), and M*U*S*H (2022). Through the creation of spellbinding rhythms and visual patterns, the film observes and traces life’s cycles, transformations, and decays. Singularity becomes plurality, and through the camera’s rendering of these movements in space and time, the seemingly abstract takes on a material dimension.