Dan Walwin’s works, both excerpted from his 32 min. video High Angle, Dead Drop, employs numerous points of translucent signification. The first excerpt opens with a shot of the British coastline, taken from the window of a helicopter- an image that immediately recalls the aerial shots from Robert Smithson’s 1970 film Spiral Jetty. The footage that follows shows an isolated, vaguely militaristic complex, overrun by weeds. The area is abandoned aside from a single figure who watches a plane flying overhead. The second excerpt goes inside the bowels of the mysterious complex, where the same figure crawls down a ladder into a dimly-lit bunker. He idly smokes a cigarette, and soon after, a briefcase containing some kind of jerry-rigged telecommunications equipment begins to emit feedback. The figure climbs the ladder and leaves. Within these mysterious fragments of narrative, one can point to numerous references; beyond the aforementioned 1960’s earthworks, there are also subtle nods to British spy films, Antonioni’s use of silence, and the isolation of Chris Marker’s post-apocalyptic La Jetée. Each of these points of significance is layered and folded over, functioning less as homage than as cultural apparition.