With the help of a beeswax beauty product, my fingerprints are all over this film. It is projected through a neglected Bell and Howell Autoload projector (my first thirft store projector find) which has a short, replaced parts, and it scratches films. In general, there are so many things that can go wrong when projecting film and using this projector along with a multiple-spliced film with beeswax increases the chances for caught hairs, losing the focus or loop, scratches, etc. Just as there are so many things one can allow themselves to fear in life, I wanted to create a piece that could serve as a kind of spell to help me to keep going even though so many things can go wrong. Finally, even if the projector failed or lost the loop, I would still find the few seconds of dusty landscapes and one-time animated fingerprints beautiful.

"I'll Trade You Fear for a Knockout" was shown as part of the Element of Temporary 5 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in 2004. It was also rearranged and used in a collaborative performance called, "tablesettings," with the theater company, Scrap and Salvage, in 2007.