Bill Viola - Ocean Without a Shore

The art itself isn't really art but at the same time it is. It isn't in that the artist isn't making something physical but it is in how it is represented--how the idea is represented. In Ocean Without a Shore, a wide range of people are slowly walking out of this abyss-like darkness and moving towards the viewer, slowly, methodically. At first the figures are haunting and grainy in black and white as they come towards you. Then they pass through a very thin, shiney wall and become crystal clear and in color. This is visually unnerving and beautiful at the same time. It is meant to represent the division of life and death and how frail it actually is. The space is so confined that every little noise echoes and moves about the space eerily. It integrates the old and new technology seamlessly and the effects are so simple yet they look like they took so much work.