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FILM  &  VIDEO  SCULPTURE

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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
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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
Picturedetail 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

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Remote Sensing (1986) video sculpture 6Oin. x 25in. x 4in.
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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
antique Riley's Electric blue ink
Riley's Electric Blue Ink
jawbone
century-old electrical tube
century-old electrical tube
vintage gasaver tabs
antique gasaver tabs
corn cob
corn cob
vintage hairpins
vintage hairpins
detail of video image Wigwam Motel
still frames from Remote Sensing video showing abandoned roadside "Wigwam Motel" in Arizona
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Remote Sensing installed in windows of Since 1903 storefront, San Francisco 1986

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