This film was created for Chris Burnett, an artist and musician whose work in 2018 examined idealized love. The themes he was exploring in his music triggered an idea in my mind: when we are in the throes of an obsessive crush we create false, perfect versions of our obsessions. They transform, becoming beautiful to an unearthly degree. Gods and goddesses; alive, but also cruelly unreal.

Armed with this concept, I visualized Chris’ mind as a temple made of light and concrete. Within it, he worships a goddess with a face of flowers. Initially, she appears beautiful, a pure and perfect vision, surrounded by heavenly light. When her mask is removed, however, her eyes are stark white, lending to an unnerving feeling of otherness, alienness. She is ghostly, ethereal, almost imaginary. An eidolon.