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Migratory birdclouds above the Sonny Bono Salton Sea Refuge, next to geothermal energy installations. Celestials visit, appear and disappear-women like clouds. Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, along the San Andreas Fault.
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Sites: wetlands remnant near LAX, electrical power transformers, and discount big box food store. At the wetlands edge a marginal explosion of wires and cut-rate food in bulk- hot yellow interiors. Invasion of the tesserae--folding terraforms crash and meld consumer technologies at the edge of a denatured nature, west Los Angeles. an atopia, where site dissolves into an event-disturbance you can only grasp through glutted layers of visual and auditory…
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The California aqueduct releases water into the Los Angeles Basin, at Interstate 5 near Valencia. Running water, running out of water. Imagining water as a synthetic, I build a model with airbrush paint, paper, garden hose. The hot pink like chrome in the bright air.
Tesserae of Venus: a science fiction project imagining the 'arrival' of carbon-saturated atmosphere on Earth
Jamming the liminal sites where biosphere meets big scale energy technology-- a dream of Venus arriving tectonically in tesseracts, squishing time, mixing toxins in hopes of a cure, deliriously overheated-- our hothouse landscapes move into a new space/time..we montage shelters out of transverse tents, we signal with solar powered warning lights in the midst of parking lots, shopping malls, geothermal plants and oil fields--
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next showing at Art Cologne Open Space curated by Vernissage.tv April 2010
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