This travel case contains 11 still images and one small looping video monitor of an encounter between two boots/feet (a butch and a femme). It is an endless loop of beginnings and endings, patterns examined, replayed in memory, and repeated.

Attractions and relationships are often patterns played out again and again throughout ones life. Sometimes patterns can be recognized. Occasionally they can be interrupted, but often play themselves out in an infinite loop of slight variations. In “Replay” a flirting encounter becomes a psychological loop.

Set in a travel case, it replays a common relationship pattern in today’s disposable culture: reach, relate, respond, retreat... replay. The travel case doubles as a slide table, suggesting the examination of this pattern. The frame-by-frame dissection of the gesture begins to take on the character of the slow-motion playback, revealing the subtleties of the interaction. Much like this sports metaphor, one begins to replay the last relationship over and over, looking for where it went wrong.

Funded by in part by a Drescher Fellowship.