single channel video, 2019, 4:56min

for screening and exhibition rentals contact the Video Data Bank in Chicago

“It’s a delight; not fragile yet.
It’s not hockey bashing and blades.
Not the escapades, or a snake.
It’s an expanded definition of drawing.”

“What is it to balance on a blade? The improbability of the structure of a skate to hold a body, the delicacy of balance –- this is just one of the gestures that are repeated and held within the icy structure of the E-team’s video.  The expanse of a frozen lake is seen in the gaze of a drone, while the red hat of the solitary human draws a line through the vast frozen landscape. What begins as a sonic heartbeat beneath the ice, turns into a throbbing anthem of epic proportions.  Everywhere the extremes. Everywhere held together by a considered tenderness. Who could have predicted that the solitary figure drawing onto ice would be the perfect fit for Queen’s Under Pressure? In the ice real strange world of e-team’s action drawing, it makes perfect sense. It is the vast and the personal who meet; omniscience of drone paired with closeups of a hand; the stick makes a mark, so does nature herself.  As viewers we yield to the pressure, the vertigo of far and close. We yield to beauty.”  –Dani & Sheilah ReStack