Video sequence
Eclipse
Eclipse commemorates the passenger pigeon—whose once massive population darkened the skies for hours but which went extinct over 100 years ago. John James Audubon likened this phenomenon to a “noonday eclipse.” Artist duo Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris created this work in commemoration of this lost species as a flock ascending up and out of the frame. Working in collaboration with Matthew Patterson Curry, the work’s soundscape layers first-hand accounts of the disorienting experience of the passenger pigeon flocks flying overhead from people who witnessed the phenomenon.
ArtistSusannah Sayler, born 1969
Date2014
MediumSite-responsive video installation with spatial sound design, video loop with audio
Dimensions7 minutes, 5 seconds Dimensions variable and adaptable based on chosen method of projection
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2024.63
ClassificationTime-Based Media
ProvenanceArtist; to (Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2024
On ViewNo