Hepner is a Pittsburgh-based artist who has been actively connected to the San Diego art scene. She has an ongoing interest in exploring how digital technology impacts society and individuals, utilizing participatory public art projects, real-time performance, and photography. Hepner incorporates performative processes to re-situate her residual bodily knowledge of things she has experienced into pieces of performed light painting. This series was created as she danced with LEDs in front of a camera shortly after the pandemic lockdown period was lifted in June 2020. Each work is a performance as landscape photos of the sunset that glowed on her last flight before COVID-19 play back one column of pixels at a time. It becomes a symbol of the journey, including transformations and hard shifts, that we endured the pandemic, having arrived somewhere different without leaving home.

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