Do Not Knock (still), running time: 5:00 (2006)

Shot in Catskill, New York during a residency at Catwalk.

A small woman unchanges and changes back again underneath a temporary fort strung from desk to chair in an old carriage-house. Her gestures: hesitant, deliberate, civil.

"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation... Thus the ability is lost, for example, to close a door quietly and discreetly, yet firmly... What does it mean for the subject that there are no more casement windows to open, but only sliding frames to shove, no gentle latches but turnable handles, no forecourt, no doorstep before the street, no wall around the garden?" -from Minima Moralia This video is part of a larger series on how landscape is often a site for both psychological and literal escape and was funded by the Bronx Council of the Arts, specifically the Longwood Arts Project/ Digital Matrix Commissions Program.