...was the first project Niki Nolin and I worked on together. Since she is a multi-faceted media artist and we were long time Columbia College colleagues, it was the beginning of a collaboration that has happily continued for years. The images on the video deal with the disintegration of the environment; both the physical and ultimately, the cultural as well. The carved hands in front of the DVD can be manually opened or shut-allowing the viewer the choice of looking or not....