‘Bathing in the light ’, extracts thirty seconds from history. It begins with the iconic image of Donald Campbell attempting to break the water speed record at Lake Coniston, England in 1967. He dies trying. His last moments of existence were captured on film and committed to grainy cultural memory. Here, these images are digitally processed as a slow, erratic flow and the sounds are (eventually) filtered through a Vocoder. A Vocoder is a contemporary device commonly used within the world of Pop music to allow those with poor singing voices to sound in tune. What sounds like the strains of a musical instrument is in fact digital technology attempting to harmonize Campbell’s last words with the sound of the rocket-powered engine that delivered him to his end. We view Campbell’s attempt to force the laws of nature, to push human velocity over three hundred miles per hour leading to his ultimate demise. His almost Futurist endeavour becomes a Sisyphean glory, he dies trying, again and again, as the work is a continuous loop. Further manipulation of this moment constructs a relationship between belief, technology and death. It alludes towards our fetishization of knowledge and the promise of technology which contains the power to challenge the certainty of our mortality. The format is square 1:1, digital animation on film converted to digital loop.