4 diptychs, each print 44″ x 44″
Suite of 8 archival digital prints on Epson Somerset Velvet 255gsm paper; a collection of stage lights sourced from “live” album covers of now-deceased musicians
Johnny Cash- Live at San Quentin
John Coltrane – The Paris Concert
Jimi Hendrix – In Concert
Marvin Gaye – Live at the London Palladium
Rick Nelson – In Concert
Lightnin’ Hopkins – The King of the Blues
Sun Ra – Live at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival 1973
John Coltrane/Archie Shepp – New Thing at Newport
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.