Video

My artworks tell a story using images, color, music and movement. "Biking the Yellow Road" is my visual homage to biking in the city where I live. "Biking the Yellow Road" culminates three years of cycling and artmaking. The video is a stimulating example combining two of my life passions: making art and bike riding.

In 2020, both these passions changed. With Zoom classes, I expanded my video editing skills. Simultaneously, I chose daily biking in response to the constant frightening pandemic, finding a way to stay active and feel a sense of freedom from the worries in our world. This video is an excellent example of how I learned to make videos integrating my experience, as well as building an intertwined story using my recordings, still images and music. Because my biking and artmaking widened, I now make art films about nature, flowers and riding my bike. "Biking the Yellow Road," as well as many of my video pieces, offers meditative joy and a visual adventure, communicated using mobile art.

The title "Riding the Yellow Road" echoes the words "follow the yellow brick road" from "The Wizard of Oz," an influential childhood film, referring to possible hopeful outcomes. I chose the color yellow symbolizing brightness and joy. My happy, cycling video uses energy, color, movement and animated imagery, presenting the audience a visual and auditory experience of cycling along Eugene, Oregon pathways.