Soul float

As of yet the most frustrating, worrying, embarrassing and time-consuming short idea I've done. A few things, realizing how to make myself float freely that I can pull off alone. Most ideas I try to visualize myself doing them alone. Not very patient with waiting on someone for help when it comes to an idea I have, but I’m slowly learning to hold more patience. Next thing, what do I need to achieve this, and I think back to one of my favorite movies The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick. There is a scene that blew my mind, and it was a simple idea but executed beautifully. In this scene Jessica Chastain’s character is floating by a tree, floating up and down, side to side, reaching towards the camera and pulling away. You can’t see any wires of course and the movement was so fluid and angelic. It was done with a high-level harness system which I cannot access. So, all I can think of how to do this is to float stationary and I needed a harness. After searching online, I found one on Amazon and with the help of a friend (you rock Isaac) I was able to get the harness the next day and plan this out.

After three days of driving around Dallas trying to find the perfect spot, I located a big park with a huge field. Perfect for me to be alone and not freak anyone out by what I was going to do (which didn’t work). Realizing I am doing this alone I set up and climbed this big soccer goal, hang myself upside down, hook myself to my makeshift latch and precede to hang. Now I wanted to hang for a long time to get as much footage as possible since I wasn’t going to do this twice. I’m hanging from a horizontal pole, at night, doing subtle movements. I’m next to a fire station, a street, and housing neighborhood not too far. After about 3-4 minutes I climb down, and I hear an ambulance coming my way. I see it come closer and pull in the parking lot where my car was the only car parked. It is my assumption, but I feel someone saw me hanging and thought I committed suicide. The ambulance rushed in and parked facing me. With its lights pointing right at me. I start moving around to let them know I’m fine, the ambulance doesn’t move but they turned off the siren but kept the lights flashing. I continued to move around looking at my camera, my lighting, just making suggestions that no one is dead here. It leaves after a few minutes and I think “Dang, someone must have thought I killed myself, and if I was still hanging, they would’ve rushed over to me, and I would’ve looked like a fool for doing something like that.”

All for the art huh?

Dallas, Tx