Vimeo ID: 76165600
Along the Way is a 20-minute video mosaic that includes over 1,500 videos taken by the artists featuring the people and places of Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area. This piece bears witness to a nine-month journey the artists undertook among the people of the Bay Area. Upon arriving to Oakland, viewers are reminded that community is made up of a myriad of peoples. Individuals of different ages, races, and socio-economic backgrounds are depicted without being categorized. The thread is their humanity, evoked in video portraits and the culminating video mosaic on the media wall. The diversity of Oakland and its vibrancy is captured in extraordinary video portraits of everyday people. Faces and places merge and commingle creating a vocabulary that evokes mood while underscoring place and movement with the unifying thread being the humanity of what we encounter “along the way” in a place like Oakland. 2007 30’ x 10’ OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT