Young Projects @ Pacific Design Center

Cooley's  video work builds directly out of his photographic practice, the image constitutes a collection of moments, which he seamlessly weaves together into a unified whole via computer software. His video piece, Skyward (2012), which is projected onto the ceiling, extends that idea to a grand scale offering a single uninterrupted tracking shot from downtown Los Angeles to Pacific Palisades. However, as a kind of rebuttal to Gursky and Crewdson's "godlike" camera, he keeps his POV on the ground, allowing the upper atmosphere to become a kind of canvass. Thus time and space become fictionalized, which itself becomes an allegory for the city.