Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier
Bringing Tucker Beckett's photographs and diary to Life
In 2018 I was commissioned by the Presidio Trust, to create a proof of concept after-dark projected artwork that would demonstrate the potential of after-dark video installation to activate buildings with stories at night. This installation was designed to be projected onto two sets of windows, in a then unused building, which was the site of a former military barracks in San Francisco's Presidio.
The video work, called Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier, shares the photographs of Tucker Beckett, a solider, who was stationed in these barracks at the Presidio in 1912-14, as a series of short video loops, with narrated soundtrack from his diary.
Unfortunately the final projected artwork was not completed due to unforeseen circumstances. I have repurposed the video, now with sound, and colorized photographs as an augmented video piece that can be viewed through a smart phone to view the video on the facade windows of the former Infantry buildings on the main parade ground of the Presidio.
The video's would be viewed as 4 separate video's onto 4 windows each about 2 minutes in length. This augmented video or projected video piece could be presented onto the Presidio Hotel, Walt Disney Museum, California Society of Pioneers or Futures without Borders.