Facsimile, 2008

The video takes place in a tropical environment. The camera smoothly tracks through the undergrowth and plant life of this jungle environment focusing on specific details, creating the impression we are moving through a real environment. The video slowly reveals that the action is taking place in a Large Victorian glass house of a Botanical garden. The visual conventions of science fiction films are also knowingly referenced in this piece through camera work that manufactures the impression of a deserted paradise.

The primary inspiration for the work is the science fiction novel 'The Invention of Morel', by Adolfo Bioy Casares. The novel's story centres on a man, marooned on a tropical island, who discovers an invention that can reproduce life-like three-dimensional images of anything it records. The narrator eventually realizes that the people he encounters and some of the surroundings are recordings, repeating the course of one week eternally. The text accompanying the work is a passage from the novel where the eponymous Morel reveals to the islands inhabitants, that they are reproductions continually repeating past events.