Silent Miami is the central video in an experimental installation that weaves together non-professional footage of 1926 Miami vacations in black and white with powerful flashes of ultramarine blue representing atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the 1940s. Presented in a circular mask to emulate stereoscopic viewing, the video immerses viewers in a visual dialogue between the everyday and the catastrophic.

By combining idyllic scenes of South Florida’s past with sudden eruptions of destruction, Silent Miami explores the tension between serenity and devastation, memory and rupture. The absence of sound accentuates the sense of distance, nostalgia, and latent threat, inviting the audience to reflect on the resonance of historical images in our present and the fragile boundaries that separate normalcy from disaster.