Cobweb Codex is a video installation about how our physical and psychological landscapes are intertwined and defined by obscured structures. Super 8mm footage of the central Alabama landscape is combined with D.I.Y. animation techniques, video diary entries, collages of everyday graphic ephemera and the sounds of oral histories, drumming, doom metal, radio transmissions and field recordings conducted in the region. These ingredients are woven into a localized gestural study of how people move through the land, and how it moves through them subconsciously.

Jasper Lee is a musician and artist from central Alabama. He works across video, sound and installation explores metaphysical aspects of ritual, folklore and perception of identity in contemporary Southern culture. Jasper's work has been exhibited at museums and arts centers such as The Mint Museum, Charlotte The Carrack, Durham, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, Elsewhere Museum, Vinegar Contemporary, The Ackland Museum, Louisiana Tech School of Design and COOP Gallery in Nashville. His work in film has included composing scores for feature films, directing music videos and creating art films which have screened at festivals internationally including Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Berlin Revolution Film Festival and Portland Underground Film Festival. Jasper earned a BS in Studio Art from the University of Montevallo, and went on to receive a Teaching Fellowship and MFA in Interdisciplinary Art at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2019. He has worked as Artist Coordinator for Art Bash, the annual fundraiser for Magic City Art Connection (MCAC), and served as Education Coordinator for MCAC & Moss Rock Festival. Lee currently teaches drawing at UAB and works in film & music production in Birmingham. He is also a performer and organizer in the experimental music scene of Birmingham, where he curates the music label Sweet Wreath.

Cobweb Codex by Jasper Lee