Infinity Float by Kari Altmann is a video animation depicting a missile.
Altmann’s missile, though, never hits a target.
Rather, it draws infinity signs in the plume of its continuously billowing smoke again and again and again and again until one begins to watch the continuous delineation of infinity as much as the missile drawing this delineation.
What disturbs this pleasant vision of blissed-out endlessness, though, is the float of the infinity sign, itself.
Past.
As the sign rises slowly but continuously towards the top of the frame and finally beyond it, it ends up reading less as “up” and more as “out” – a memory.
And as one peers into the background upon which these memories were staged, one begins to delineate the background as much as the memories it provokes.