 The "phosphorescent environment" that so impressed Ancona was the Northwest's iridescent light shown for the first time as art turned video.As a video artist, Chase lectured and showed her work abroad under the auspices of the United States Information Agency, for which she traveled to India, Europe, Australia, South America, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.Working with light as her medium, with dancers turned into flowing colored shapes, Chase brought the Northwest sensibility to video.