An ongoing series of single screen videos and sculptures about non reversible state changes. Films include spontaneously combusting matches, eroding alka seltzer tablets and a time lapse film of a deflating balloon. Each film is presented on looped dvd for monitor or projection.



Little Death 2 (excerpt) from Alex Pearl on Vimeo.

In Little Death 2 a number of carved alka seltzer tablets are held under water until their inevitable end.

“In an act of bleak, persuasive magic performed with minimal resources the tablet acquires a sinister personality, continuing to glare out from the glass as its eyes dissolve and enlarge into the eye-sockets of a skull. “

[Lawrence Bradby, 2007]