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At Any Given Moment, Grass is one of a series of video and sound art installations. In an attempt to explore the nature of perception and media representation, this work focuses on the phenomenological approach of ‘stepping out’ in order to ‘see ourselves seeing.’ The repetitive rhythm, tight crop and large-scale image of the barley grass emphasize its particular organizational logic in time and space. Allowing us to view ourselves from the outside, as part of the representation, we learn about ourselves and challenge preconceptions of our surroundings, specifically of the nature of matter. The cross-rhythmic tensions between simple elements in the grass—each blade moving at variable speed, variable light and variables of atmospheric conditions—create visual difference and reveal the patterns that one simple form, a blade of grass, produces through relationships and complex organization.