Timothy Hickey

Timothy Hickey

Timothy J. Hickey “Street Pavers Video” series features the vanishing historic brick streets of Champaign, Illinois and contains subtle, slow-paced imagery with quiet accompanying ambient audio. The point of view looks downward with a framework of bricks as a stage for each video while external forces act upon the static pavers below. The changing elements vary with the seasons, weather, sky conditions and whatever else is happening. The results are a unique document of time and place.

The imagery is reinforced by field-recorded, ambient sounds occurring during these moments. The videos may contain rain, snow, light changes as clouds pass overhead, trees branches above reflected in puddles below, wind moving shadows or leaves across the pavers, vehicle traffic, bird song and other common neighborhood sounds.

The University of Illinois’ Spurlock Museum of World Cultures is sponsoring “Street Pavers Video” in the Knight Auditorium as a continuously looping presentation on Friday April 10 from 10:00am~4:00pm; Saturday April 11 from 10:00am~4:00pm; Sunday April 12 from 12:00pm~4:00pm. The museum is located at 600 South Gregory Street – Urbana, Illinois.