Britt Wilder Moseley

Constructed Landscapes
Studies in perception, matter, and moving image

These works are studies of my interest in how sound, image, and material form the perception of place. Using tabletop setups and installations with cameras, liquids, macaroni and cheese, blue foam, and ceramic clay, I created small-scale environments that illusionistically become fantastical worlds. These experiments, from single-channel videos to multi-camera installations, translate material processes of decay and sedimentation into perceptual events.

The experience of growing up in the Rocky Mountains and seeing the Milky Way re-occurs in these works again and again, as I attempt to recreate for myself, and my audiences, that sense of awe I felt as a child; looking out into space, and finding comfort in its blank black vacuum. Through my analysis with camcorder technology, I discover this same beauty inhabiting the small details in my daily life.

Blue

3 min 8 sec

Single-channel video
Mini-DV

2010

My first “video vista,” Blue constructs a mythic landscape using everyday materials—shampoo waterfalls, clamp-lamp sunrises, and icy tunnels rendered from translucent gels. The work unfolds as a handmade simulation of the natural sublime, performed through modest, domestic means. Its soundscape, composed with a toy keyboard and voice, traces a fragile emotional topography between innocence and adulthood. Blue marks an early gesture toward world-building through material improvisation and mediated observation.

Welcome To Crayon County

4 min 4 sec

Single-channel video
Mini-DV

2010

Welcome to Crayon County was an experimental Video Vista in the form of a tourist promotional video. Crayon County is a psychedelic and disturbing world, one where figure and ground merge into a hybrid kaleidoscopic experience.

Macaroni and Cheese Dinner Cave

8 × 8 × 8 ft

Mixed Media Diorama (pasta, cheese dust, glue, wood, plexiglass, metal scaffold)

2012

Macaroni Cheese Dinner Cave is an early experiment in constructing synthetic landscapes from everyday materials. The sculpture is built as a windowed diorama resembling a monumental crystal cave, with the interior of this cave being made entirely of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. The work reimagines the landscape as a geologic strata of processed food. Within my larger practice, it marks a formative exploration into how perception, scale, and material excess can transform the ordinary into a surreal and spectacular environment.

Sunset

2 min 3 sec

Single-Channel Video
4k

2019

Much like Daguerre’s early landscape dioramas, Sunset features light and movement in a translucent, slowly transforming image. A live miniature environment—an illuminated tank of ceramic clay suspended in water—becomes both subject and stage. The clay slip, titled Alfred Lumpy Slip, settles and grows delicate hairlike structures, forming microscopic architectures that resemble mountains, clouds, or cellular beginnings.

Gold Coast

5 min 27 sec

Single-Channel Video
HD

Sound by Linkoln

2019

Created during a residency at the Institute for Electronic Arts (Alfred University, NY), Gold Coast is a single-take video composed through a live broadcast mixer using macroscopic camcorder imagery, Dave Jones analog video processing, and distortion software running in Ableton Live. Produced in collaboration with musician Linckoln for their album Dew, the video extends the sonic atmosphere of the record into a visual field where the boundaries between landscape, software, and perception dissolve.

Like earlier works in this series, Gold Coast treats the video apparatus as an instrument and ecosystem. The video signal becomes abstracted through a system that transforms raw material (light, texture, and sound) into shifting, meditative abstractions.

Panorama

Dimensions Variable

Three Channel Live-Video Projection,

Cameras, Fishtank, Clay, Water

Installed in the Alfred University Immersion Gallery

2019

Developed during a residency at Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts, this installation expands the Sunset apparatus into an immersive, multi-camera environment. An array of camcorders observes a fish tank filled with Alfred Lumpy Slip, its shifting textures projected across the gallery walls. The system performs itself—a network of optics, water, clay, and feedback—transforming a tabletop experiment into a distributed perceptual field.

The Built World

Single-channel video
HD

2 min

2024

The Built World extends my ongoing inquiry into how perception operates within constructed environments—how the infrastructures that support daily life shape our collective sense of attention. Through tiled repeated and tiled video and dolly mounted camera movement, the piece transforms ceilings and walls into a shifting ecosystem of pattern and rhythm. The work continues my exploration of how systems sustaining human life can co-compose meaning and sensation. By foregrounding the overlooked geometric poetry of HVAC ducts and fluorescent hums, The Built World reframes interior space as an unfolding kalidescopic hallucination.

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