Golden Balls, 2017
single channel video with stereo sound
Situated on Lake Erie, Golden Balls loosely follows the story of a scandalous beauty queen, Little Miss Cleveland, and her seduction of the golden balls of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The video is lush and psychedelic, accompanied by a haunting soundtrack of fuzzy distortion and ethereal female voice. Underneath the hypnotic visuals and sound lies a mysterious but tangible rejection of social constructs as this Amazonian hyper-feminine siren unabashedly romances a glittering golden basketball. The formal qualities of the video resemble computer animation and modeling, though the footage is shot entirely on a phone using a meticulously hand woven mirrored mylar textile in physical space to create the illusion of digital effects.