85 ½” x 18” x 1 ¾”
6-part lithograph on Strathmore illustration board; custom frame
The Allman Brothers – Eat A Peach
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors
New Order – Movement
Metallica – …And Justice For All
The Who – Face Dances
Led Zeppelin – Coda
In 1977, NASA launched two probes with “Golden Records” representing Earth’s life and cultures, and edited to present humanity’s “best face forward.” Ancient Beacons Long for Notice—the third video in a trilogy—explores the challenge of representing humanity through a single object. What is our moral obligation to a “full accounting” of our actions in perpetuity, off-planet, and to unknown beings?
Commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.