The 'Paper and light series' consists of six photos (five of which are shown here) made in 1982 and '83. Separate images which arose on the basis of light and shadow on paper. Hoover's earlier work with video was principally based on performances. She used her own body as an image carrier, as a living object on which she manipulated and recorded the fall of light. She took a little more distance with these photos and concentrated more on the pictorial aspect. This photographic experiment in turn led to the addition of another time dimension by using video and thus the process proceeded. This produced the video tapes 'Desert' (1985) and 'Returning to Fuji' (1984) from which the stills come which are mounted on the facing wall. These tapes record a natural passage of time and bring to life an imaginary landscape in the fluent passing of light and shadow. The meditative images in 'Returning to Fuji' suggest a slowly changing landscape with Mount Fuji as the spiritual symbol.

The stills from 'Returning to Fuji' are mounted as a bar, that is to say that there is no space left between the individual stills. Walking through the corridor creates the illusion of a passage of time; the images become a sequence. The photos from 'Paper and light series' are clearly separated from each other; they are moments in time. In this way, the discontinuous medium of photography is strikingly confronted with the flow of images in video. Furthermore, it also gives a picture of Nan Hoover's working methods whereby she successively investigates a subject in several different media. The results and the limitations of the one medium give an impulse to proceed further in another. "... one thing always pushes me to another ..."