Morgen Christie, creates video art happenings that focus on the history of aging and life span, not only in a century change duration, but also a 15-minute light change duration. The relationship of time to memory is incredibly important to her. She hopes to cement the neighborhood to its subconscious through the mythology of time.

The structures she projects upon have been here for centuries. Morgen reinstates their history with those of the present by cleansing them with liquid light. SHe is immortalizing a moment in a few hours at most, depending on the battery of her power bank.

Since the projections are so temporary the memory will only be reconciled in the documentation, as a still image.

The installations occur at sites of ruins, mostly grist and saw mills, but also Covered bridges. Morgen is attempting a balancing act in preservation and acknowledgment of technological timelines, by using digital equipment to memorialize the industrial revolution. The very tools that enabled the information age to expand on top of it.

She also considers how colonization has rendered the memory of this area. the land the mills were built on conquered the agricultural revolution, and the hunter-gatherers before it.

Colonized stone or Mason-Dixon Line markers are a memory from this area. The Mason-Dixon Line separated freedom from slavery during the Civil War. It is marked by limestones every mile and crown stones every five miles.

A video titled One Drop Rule confronts the southern side of a limestone. The one drop rule was a form of segregation in Jim Crow south. It traces African ancestry within mixed race individuals.

This work is about the origin of land, how it was used, and how it has adapted. There are a few resources to trace that orgin. One of which is land surveying tools which are now open source.

I used The 1777 Chester County Property Atlas and compared it against the 1860 Chester County Slave Registry to find slaveowner’s land. The area identified with a green projection belonged to Stephen Bowen, once a slave master in East Whiteland, PA in 1801.

The boundary lines are projections of Bowen’s property at the northeast corner. He owned land, bodies, and ideas.