The Name of God (2007)
hi-definition video, loop

The Name of God is a two channel video installation featuring Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups who spell out the name of god using sparklers. For the participants the phenomena of ‘persistence of vision’ that humans experience from bright lights in darkened spaces means their writing results in words they themselves can read in space. Video cameras posses no such capacity and so fail to record this phenomena. The resultant work then is not one where we get to see what they write, but rather we witness their relationship to their writing, and implicitly, to their faith.