Occasionally, however, our wild imaginations rope in the real world too. We are taken over not just by subtle, half-conscious dreamy sensations, but by actual visual phenomena witnessed in a fully waking state. Yuji Oshima attributes a “strange feeling of the presence of supernatural phenomena†from the 25th floor of a building in Sao Paolo as the mysterious precursor to this video collage made from found footage material of UFOs. How often is seeing an act of will? How do the questions we ask determine what we will see? What does art want from the supernatural?
