| |
New Views of Last Days
May 24, 2008
"Yesterday I went to check on my installation, Views of a New Desert, with Landscaping, at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum, to make sure nothing had been disturbed or come disarranged. All was as I had left it: Nine old picture frames containing crumbling tar-paper from a roll that had been littering my studio for years; a very aged wooden screen door, beaten by the sun over decades, with a torn screen; and limbs of dead bleached oleander set in cinderblocks of gravel or hanging from above, arrested in flowing motion like seaweed in a black-and-white photo.
"The titles of the 'pictures' were listed at the side:
- News arrives of food riots in Haiti.
- Truckers in New Jersey demonstrate as diesel tops $4 a gallon.
- Foreclosures sweep the High Desert.
- Commodity prices rise as speculators move in.
- The artist dreams of Pompeii.
- Armed stand-off at power-lines.
- Father contracts bird flu from dying son.
- Tent city grows outside Ontario Airport.
- Fields of invasive mustard await spark.
|
|
|
