Tabletop Viewables, "H", Midi Onodera, 2011. Photo credit: Alison Reiko Loader, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

Like guests at a child\u2019s tea party, we can scoot from seat to seat discovering three tiny three-piece place-settings of sequences featuring letterforms that spell the voiceless \u201cPhi\u201d (\u03a6)\u2013 symbol of the golden ratio and the visual phenomenon that permits us to see movement from sequences of still imagery.\u00a0 Each letterset of videos\u2013P, H, and I\u2013offers a silent narrative of memory, isolation and \u201csubmerged lives\u201d that speaks through moving texts and imagery. P is for the peas that come in all types, being shelled by hands that seem to work just below the surface of the table beside miniature portals evoking childhood anxieties of difference, displacement and possibly guilt. H is for a habitation or hermitage expressed in the longing surveillance of the routine cigarette breaks of an office worker across the way, and the partial and perhaps paranoid peephole view of an empty and anonymous hallway. I is for the interiorization of \u201cthe things that drive me mad,\u201d a meditation on the suppression and suspension, of thoughts and feelings, required to make it through the day.<\/p>\n