Valerie Sullivan Fuchs

From everyday digital recordings of visual images of the land, its natural processes, and elements, like water, I form the basis of my landscapes, in digital imaging, video and large scale imaging installations with referent images of nature or the landscape, from Kentucky or wherever I am at the moment including Louisville, New York City or Finland. My temporal experiences within nature inform formal foundational structures within my artworks through layering time-based media.

Since 2007 I have been creating solar powered light boxes, and integrating hydroelectricity into my video artworks. My most recent solar power light box, Solar/Water Studies is comprised of several Water/Sun, 2021- present where I am trying to visualize the invisible energy from the sun and the water. These are illuminated from the sun.

With Shift, 2021, was the first in this series that began when my daily encounter with nature left me feeling that my intra-acting with nature contained an invisible energy that was layered and covered by a “veil or mantle”. This was before I researched the ancient reference to the goddess Isis and the ‘Veil’ or mantle covering nature’s secrets.