FILM & VIDEO SCULPTURE
Luminous Greenhouse
video sculpture 12in x 12in. x 12in., re-purposed plastic & metal salvaged from the artist's greenhouse,
hand-processed super-8 film transferred to video
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Luminous Greenhouse (2011) is a video sculpture consisting of a digital film loop displayed on a 7-inch screen enclosed in a miniature horticultural greenhouse. Here the unruly forces of nature intermingle, preserved on light sensitive photo emulsion, and loop endlessly like events in the natural world even while constrained in a structure intended for human dominance over Nature. duration: 17 seconds to variable |
Home Entertainment Center for a Farm-worker
Home Entertainment Center for a Farmworker, viewer-activated film sculpture, 83in. x 37in. x 20in.
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detail showing rear projected film of pesticide spraying + produce grown organically & preserved +
United Farmworkers cap
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 detail of viewer activating film depicting pesticide pouring into spraying machine
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Home Entertainment Center for a Farmworker (1989-1991) is a viewer activated film sculpture made from a reconstructed farmhouse pantry that was made from reclaimed elements found on my land in Sonoma County. In this cupboard, I installed a rear-projected super-8 film loop that is activated by viewers via push button on the cabinet.
The film is composed of re-edited footage appropriated from an advertisement for an agricultural pesticide sprayer. The cabinet was filled with several varieties of vegetables that I grew and preserved. An organic pesticide, diatomaceous earth, is dusted over the contents, providing a practical alternative to hazardous poisons that are depicted in the film. |
Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing (1986) video sculpture 6Oin. x 25in. x 4in.
detail from Remote Sensing showing photo of installation process printed on vintage photo paper
Remote Sensing video sculpture (1986) incorporates ideas about archaeology, film as artifact and American kitsch, and raises questions about the meaning of "evidence." A small video screen buried in an archaeological cut shows an endless pan of concrete wigwams by the roadside. Projecting near the image are actual shards of Indian pottery and modern technological refuse. Remote Sensing asks viewers to be amateur anthropologists and to consider the "image" of culture as a dubious stand-in for its reality. --Mark Durant, Artweek |
still frames from Remote Sensing video showing abandoned roadside "Wigwam Motel" in Arizona
Remote Sensing installed in windows of Since 1903 storefront, San Francisco 1986
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