The videoworks of Daniel Reeves are invested with the sublime, a haunting sense of imminent revelation. Honed images of India, Thailand, and Spain are propelled by temporal shifts, creating an illusory reality where man is but a transitory thing. In Amida (1983, 8:30 mins) and Sabda (1984, 14:55 mins), Reeves penetrates the complexity of Indian life by contrasting the texts of medieval poets and the sensual gestures of an earthly culture. Technical virtuosity comes to the fore in A Mosaic for the Kali Yuga (1986, 5 mins). Embodying the Hindu age of collapse (Kali Yuga), the videotape constructs a cataclysm fueled by accelerating media images. Sombra a Sombra (1988, 15 mins) offers abandoned architecture in Spain as a signature of loss and desertion. Read in voice-over, the writings of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo recall the indelible tracings left behind by the spirit of man. Freshly relevant, Smothering Dreams (1981, 22 mins) takes us to the swampy fields of Vietnam for a searing condemnation of war. Here, Reeves targets the mass media as the prime inculcator of glorified violence.