Lauren Marie Dake

Lauren Marie Dake’s super-imposed animations upon landscapes represent the figurative apocalypse and an attempt to reimagine it as something beautiful: a chance for new beginnings and an opportunity to rebuild after a catastrophe. This experimental film series explores the idea that time is the container for all culminations–a “Museum of Ends”–transforming them from incident to artifact. Dake double-exposed 16mm film and transferred it into digital media to create this four-channel video.

About the Artist

Lauren Marie Dake is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Seattle, Washington. She is a first year Film and Video MFA student at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Her practice revolves around film, video installation, and hand painted animation. Her process remains mostly instinctual and ambiguous, allowing space for the viewer to draw their own meaning from the work. Dake approaches video and film as she does printmaking and painting, taking time-based media and sound into different realms of movement and sensation.