Gary Hill creates moving image works, performances, and video and sound installations that investigate relationships between image and language through photographic technologies. The video work Site/Recite (a prologue) shows a collection of objects that might be found in a laboratory or natural history museum: bones, seed pods, eggshells, insect wings and animal skulls. Presented as one continuous shot that moves in and out of focus, American artist Hill extends the symbolism of seventeenth-century Dutch still life paintings to present the objects as relics that highlight the cycle of life. The work is accompanied by the voice of the artist, who poetically recites his thoughts as the camera moves across the site, presenting the thoughts themselves as additional objects.