Each 17” x 14”
12 screen prints on paper
Miles Davis – Live Around The World
Marlene Dietrich – Live In London
Maria Callas – Carmen
Jimi Hendrix – NYC ’68 (Live)
Buddy Rich and Max Roach – Rich Versus Roach
Sun Ra – Live At The Village Vanguard
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday – Live at Newport
Charles Mingus – The Complete Town Hall Concert
Nirvana – From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
Edith Piaf – Live In Lausanne
The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto 1969
Patsy Cline – Live At The Grand Ole’ Opry
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.