Park, a contemporary art museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Lamson's piece, Untitled (Walden) is both an installation piece as well as a video. The project is a poetic re-envisioning of the iconic cabin and watery landscape of Henry Thoreau's book Walden. The Walden Pond is largely influenced by Henry Thoreau's naturalist and philosophical writings. Walden, published in 1854, is a book that details his deliberate escape into the woods to live a life simplified to "only the essential facts" in the now-iconic, self-built, one-room cabin on the shores of the pond. The book infused nature writing with the philosophical underpinnings of Transcendentalism, exalting self-reliance and direct experience of nature as the very marrow of existence. The Walden, revisited exhibition sets out to examine the complicated and evolving legacy of the book against Walden Pond's current landscape, today a state park and popular swimming hole. To create the video, Lamson built a small-scale model of Thoreau's cabin re-imagined as an artist studio and entirely in white. The model floated on the lake inside of an eight-by-eight-foot cabin-shaped tent that functioned as a camera obscura. The resulting video captures the projected image of the inverted lake landscape as it moves slowly over the interior of the model cabin, illuminating the walls, furniture, and tools within this constructed space. Lamson's sensitivity to the environmental conditions is critical to how his performative action unfolds and how his video work eventually comes together. The landscape operates as both the subject matter and a set of changing physical parameters that affect how he, the artist, responds to it. The installation experience is a darkened space where the video is projected across the back wall of the gallery. The video is clips of the camera obscura phenomena in motion. Instead of the viewers seeing the floating cabin on Walden's pond from the shoreline, the camera obscura documentation creates a compression of time, space, and multiple perspectives of the landscape all within the eighteen-minute duration of the piece. References External links 1977 births Living people American installation artists American performance artists 21st-century American artists Dartmouth College alumni Bard College alumni