https://denisgillingwater.viewbook.com/ 2019-02-26 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/104e5718f0bff8194aebd52973bacb24_hd.jpg "INSPECT/SUSPECT" (r) -"SUSPECTS" (l) An installation that incorporated two thematically interrelated art works. It was created in 2011. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3ea0f75a362e2723e2eebeed49bbee9d_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 1 Site-specific CCTV installation exhibited in the ten state Biennial 2005 at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. It incorporated four monitors, six cameras, and an audio loop track. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4900e7be56fda2797e70383910a02430_hd.jpg Look/Touch 1 Short words can be very direct and "pointed " at times. However, the images are intended to have a somewhat oblique relationship with each other. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3fe4fc8420c920a7c70efbccef385a9b_hd.jpg Veiled Perceptions/Surveilled Grounds 1 The solo show's title: "Veiled Perceptions/ Surveilled Grounds". It was exhibited at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) from October 9 - November 27, 2014. The two CCTV monitors seen in the next image were intentionally mounted behind the concrete column as an element of surprise. All of the show's images were initially accessed from international surveillance cameras via an iPad. These images were "black box photographed" with a low cost digital camera then downloaded into a MacBook for Elements 11 alteration. Night time surveillance imagery can be very evocative. Their quality and resolution are often blurred and loaded with "digital noise". I embrace these characteristics both visually and conceptually. (continued - see Image #3's description) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8d50a4e44bac7eb3c8e90d0ce1fd10e9_hd.jpg Frames/Framed 1 One of three installations addressing cultural, racial, immigration, and identity issues. Exhibited at the Arizona State University Art Museum in 2010. It incorporates a CCTV surveillance system with two monitors, two panning cameras, and a suspended photograph. The photograph shows the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Boat Tour Wait Line. Behind the wait line are three Statue of Liberty performance mimes enticing members of the line to interact with them for picture taking purposes. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e80f389cb1497138bc21dc93ac22e84d_hd.jpg "INSPECT/SUSPECT" 2011 Four b&w photographs within artist made frames suspended on hooks along top edge. Two artist made title frames, INSPECT and SUSPECT, centered between suspended photographs. The images were taken during three visitations on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Boat Tours during Fall 2009 and Summer 2010. The crossing narratives raised questions regarding current immigration, racial, and cultural issues. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f6aa29f512db1ec4c55dd6361dc64f24_hd.jpg Crawl Space 1 "Crawl Space" was conceived and choreographed by Ashleigh Leite. It was performed by her and five members of the Ashleigh Leite Dance Company. It was seventy minutes in duration and thematically accentuated the strange behaviors and physical oddities that make people unique. The piece was an abstract, hyperactive study of unleashed emotional and physical reflexes.The performances were staged at Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York City. The set design utilized ten closed circuit television systems with live video feed to lead the viewers through a multidimensional under world of unsettling voyeurism. It cinematically explored the physicality of the performers as a spacial terrain, trapped in their nervous oddities, and staged to contrast with the vast vertical space of St. Mark's Church. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b48ef4dea8cb8ec23e0a25262fcc9513_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 1 Site-specific installation exhibited in the 2008 Southwestern Biennial at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. The work addresses the deep economic recession the southwest is suffering through and the visual impact seen portrayed in urban and rural landscapes. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/74b00982f43f50a9a612549531e62dcc_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 2 The thematic context addressed specific cultural, racial, and architectural issues that were holding currency at that time in Denver. There were forty photographs culled from a two week residency photographing the city.The images were displayed on miniature billboards. They were arranged on the gallery walls and columns and the floor sculptural form according to their N,S,E, or W. orientation. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0b3672273722f37454e4095253cc65fb_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 1 Site-specific CCTV installation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2001. This was a culminating exhibition of a four month residency at the museum. It was installed in the Process Room. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6b6fe54af333507a3af11877661df58a_hd.jpg Memorials 1 Site-specific installation initiating the EYE Lounge Gallery in Phoenix in February 2002. When invited to have the first exhibition in the new gallery, I asked that its transformation to a white wall space be suspended until after my installation's final showing. What had been exposed in their renovation process was a John Smiley "Happy Face" on the gallery's east wall. It had the phrase underneath it of "have a happy day". John Smiley died three days after 9/11. For me, it signified another loss of innocence for so many in our society regarding 9/11. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f19f91af13251fe43285126ed1cc93da_hd.jpg DISSATISFACTION 1 The thematic context for this installation was based on a Chevrolet automobile billboard advertising campaign in the Metro Phoenix area during 1998. This is the year the installation was created and installed. Numerous billboards with iconic Arizona images; Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Sonoran Desert. etc., were displayed with the word SATISFACTION imposed over the image. The cultural and environmental impact of the automobile on the Phoenix area has been immense. More often than not, it has not been in our long term interest. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/979ee73c3986bbdf750d494302c96e00_hd.jpg Messages 1 The overall art work has twenty one forms. Eighteen have a single image within them and three have a word: MESSAGES, MARKERS, or MEASURES. The totality of images are from seven different cities in America and Europe. The crossing narrative of images address globalization, colonialization, historical, and environmental interrelated issues. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/10903ccdb8f2f23cc5b4044df67e3078_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 1 During 2008 and 2010, I was an artist in residence at The American Academy in Rome. A self made photocase containing 40 photographs of Rome was produced. It permantently resides in their Photographic Archives. The images are 6' x 18". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b784cfc10342497bfc74a27f95136f32_hd.jpg Falsifications 1 Three interrelated photographs making for one artwork. The thematic basis of the images addresses the lack of respect the Sonoran Desert is given by developers. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f326023e19ff0a09d2c8af51f71f6776_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 1 When working on the various large scale CCTV installations, I often have numerous photographs that for one reason or another are not incorporated into the installation. However, some of those images can be incorporated into another art work. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/378d6223ddae173719e9b6a2bf04e530_hd.jpg GAS/OIL 1 At times, a singular image draws my attention and a word(s) is incorporated into the individually made frame for creating a implied narrative. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/dfedbee8d0012510a542f622cb9ecc03_hd.jpg Measurement (Hoboken) 1 "Measurements" is an on-going series of art works derived from travels during various trips through North America, Europe, and China. The images are most often in a 1.5 x 18" format. An 18" ruler is a favorite measuring device of mine. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/31a0d6e726d6cc812b0bbffed358796f_hd.jpg Measurement (Copenhagen) 1 When photograohing in Copenhagen, I found the city to be very well maintained, even in the industrial areas. The outpouring of emissions from these smokestakes was in high contrast with the city and enunciated all the more during the time of day at sunset. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fecbedcf4c35232dde7e190ae4ba22c0_hd.jpg Measurement (Canyon de Chelly) 1 While this image of a cliff dwelling is not in my usual urban context, it offers an engaging visual and conceptual contrast with Measurement (Phoenix). In past exhibitions these two have been paired with each other. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fcbf698a04bc02f85a96e41784960c06_hd.jpg Measurement (Phoenix) 1 Phoenix, as with numerous other Sun Belt cities, had been developing at break neck speed until the recession of 2008. This photograph is from a housing tract that was abandoned during the construction of their model homes. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4c6ecd64faf1b919de97560eb8059eec_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds 1 When travelling by car in China, it quickly became apparent that whatever discussion one would hear or read about regarding China's rapid development was only stating it mildly. Also, though they are designated a communist country, a varied form of our capitalism is readily on display. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5d67aacae4aebe2d81394670d8541c34_hd.jpg Weights/Measures 1 A monoprint process for the words and ground using silver ink on black paper. The printing plates are luan plywood covered with newsprint paper. The words are achieved using vinyl letters. The images are laser prints on silver paper. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4159c69f6ee02c62a15e9c848b83f4de_hd.jpg Fragment/Fragments 1 The crossing narrative between the images and words abstractly addresses the British and Greek Empires regarding their individual ascents and descents. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7c8dcb3b03dd41ada48677dcd10ed5dd_hd.jpg Look/Touch 2 The empty pedestal is from the Sculpture Garden at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. The "unused" pedestal conjures up different ideas as to what once occupied this pedestal, if ever. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2ed6bf70875abe91abdcfd2ec35778dd_hd.jpg Kinships of Destiny 1 The automobile has had a tremendous impact in helping to populate the Southwest. Many aspects of its mass production manufacturing approaches have been translated into the housing construction industry. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a5c5ce62cdb7b923e9f215aad8349cca_hd.jpg Hidden Agendas As with the automobile, the diesel powered earth movers have been another means for the Sonoron Desert's vast transformation. The dead tree is evidence of an earlier transformation of the desert to ranch or farm land. In all liklihood a house was part of this same site. When taking this image the land was being readied for a housing development. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9c8701c41f696663cc36e8f713f86c81_hd.jpg Landscapes of Loss The top image was taken on the high desert land of New Mexico. Again, there is the remains of a long ago abandoned ranch. As within so many regions of the Southwest, the construction of freeways as seen in the lower image have contributed to our region's transformation. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/349e4d03055393711abbdfc2839aed55_hd.jpg "Frame/Frames/Framed" Each monitor has their own surveillance camera. The larger camera above the tvs is a panning camera that scans some of the framed images and the viewers. The other camera is stilled and set to where the viewer(s) steps into place for watching the monitors. The camera is mounted high up on the perpendicular wall to their left. At times, viewers will "choreograph" each other as to interaction with the framed images, take their portrait on the monitors, or take a "selfie" with the monitors. The larger screen is titled with the words FRAME and FRAMES. The smaller is worded with FRAMED. Besides the context of framing art, they more importantly refer to the surveillance connotations regarding the times we live in. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4178d2d8f2925ff7294b20dcbd2b4ef3_hd.jpg Frames/Framed 2 The panning camera and photograph. The photograph was also used in the art work titled "INSPECT/SUSPECT". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/acb584cfd53112f9d08c8e8922a80b13_hd.jpg "INSPECT/SUSPECT" Upper left b&w photograph https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1eab99485eefc85ce598c0647bb3fdee_hd.jpg Crawl Space 2 The audience's seating was limited to only two sides. Each side had five televisions evenly spaced and aligned parallel with and facing the audience. Each television had two live cameras directed at the performance area. Thus, not all of the audience ever had the same viewing experience when watching the televisions. The television cameras had night vision lenses, and since the first twelve minutes of the seventy minute production was in complete darkness, the only way to view the dance was on the televisions within the viewer's range of vision. With my being the set designer, and having the responsibility for the televisions properly performing during the dance's entirety, the seven images of mine representing the set design aspects of the performance were taken during various rehearsals. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ab7495b9552b3489be76f8d3a05f2cb8_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 2 The installation has four monitors, one panning camera, and an audio system. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1c3dcd7bcd3ba3241fc4cbdc6701a465_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 3 In the corner is the largest monitor with a panning camera in surveillance of the entire gallery. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6cac1475f048ca5ce2a49200683bd670_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 2 The Process Room was located next to the Children's Workshop. With this in mind, my miniature billboarded images derived from Dublin's urban landscape were placed at a child's eye level instead of an adults. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/18268b6e8999bd09629cf6f8bd4278df_hd.jpg Memorials 2 The installation incorporated 6 cameras and 2 monitors. The monitors were placed directly across from each other on the gallery's east and west walls. There were also 5 transparent "flags" with images I photographed at Ground Zero and in Washington DC. The cameras broadcast these images on one monitor while the remaining camera was mounted on a panning device which incessantly panned the "Happy Face" on the opposing monitor. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4439254b8b332d3894cd12e747bf5892_hd.jpg DISSATISFACTION 2 The installation has three photographs. One on each side of the floor billboard and one perched directly above the TV monitor. The perched image is of Red Mountain. It is a sacred mountain of the McDowell Native American Tribe. Metro Phoenix's eastern boundaries are now completely pressed along their tribal lands. Numerous developers during the last few decades have attempted to wrest this site from the tribe. The auto industry in tandem with the developers are constantly pushing Phoenix's boundaries for their own good with little sense of anything being sacred other than their profits. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/614278e13a79db71eec0e39536bb5cbd_hd.jpg Messages 2 In an abstract context, the forms were designed with a reference to the dots and dashes of the Morse Code. However, the arrangement of the forms are not "messaging", only the images and words together message. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/40f88ef64e4fc7e91ee30578d1e8a21a_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 2 In 2005, I had made a brief stopover in Rome after an exhibition in Florence. What I found particularily fascinating about Rome were not only its "ancient aspects", and its preservationist approach to maintaining that identity, but then allowing newer elements of technology into the city's confines (surveillance and information technology etc.) It was this and other contradictory and/or contrasting elements that brought me back to Rome in 2008 and 2010. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1ad0e2b20977821a6e58d69a3389fc5c_hd.jpg Falsifications 2 The upper image is of an AT&T billboard with five saguaros. They are in an ascending order of height from left to right. Unfortunately, the billboards appeared in many areas of the desert where the saguaros no longer thrive. Metro Phoenix real estate developers are transforming the desert environs at an alarming rate. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/668e420cc0ea13cb2525869d6a581bc5_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 2 The images for this art work were culled from installations addressing environmental issues regarding Metro Phoenix and the Sonoran Desert. The form itself evolved from working on other non-installation type art works seen on this website. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/21cccb99f60834ef03ffe95a8bb13a43_hd.jpg OIL/GAS 2 This image was photographed from an elevated subway platform in Brooklyn. It is a view of the Manhattan and Brooklyn skyline. An old smoke stack was centered and divided the two bouroughs within the view. It serves as a visual metaphor for an older industrial rust belt city contending with numerous environmental problems. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/eae43ad1df21ce7b422d21c11ba8b545_hd.jpg Measurement (Hoboken) 2 The skyline of Hoboken, New Jersey I find not only visually interesting, but that New Yorkers would never consider living anywhere outside the boroughs of the NYC. Hoboken, though just across the Hudson River, was forsaken for so many years. It is in rapid redevelopment and drawing numerous New Yorkers into its new urban confines. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a843ad36713bee70154722c21e754dbb_hd.jpg Measurement (Copenhagen) 2 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/97a0111fd0fed945eb3ae1636a4ec811_hd.jpg Measurement (Canyon de Chelly) 2 The cliff dwelling is from the Navaho Nation in Arizona and New Mexico. It too is abandoned but for very different reasons than the model home's abandonment in the Phoenix image. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/af7ed9b42cd6353d7b425db6a14aa49e_hd.jpg Measurement (Phoenix) 2 Phoenix's desert landscape with its flat terrain offers little resistance to the developer's earth moving equipment. Phoenix has become the nation's fifth largest city in a matter of only a few decades. Excellent winter weather, automobiles, air conditioning, and cheap non-union labor have been some of the "accelerants" aiding the rapid growth. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/eaac1e2c237d636f9d8e711762ca863b_hd.jpg Chinese Screams/American Blinds 2 With many of my multi-image installations incorporating billboard displays for purposes of portraying a sense of currency within a culture, it occurred to me as I was driven around China without the benefit of stopping for image taking, that a rapid fire and random photographic process was in order. This is not my usual process. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e435484de414955ac4eb486ae509f61f_hd.jpg Weights/Measures 2 The 1964 World's Fair Sphere that remains permanently on display in New york City. It is made of stainless steel which helps maintain its shiny glory. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/378e1d0e66952c6bb7a43e6d0a3e5992_hd.jpg Fragment/Fragments 2 For me, the three Grecian figurative fragments displayed in the British Museum are in direct contrast with the architectural fragments found in London's Docklands area. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c0824aafee8e3375faceaf026f200544_hd.jpg Look/Touch 3 A figurative sculpture within the Sculpture Gardens at the Palace of Versailles. Of course, here the pedestal is occupied, but the protective winter cover makes for different contemplations in contrast with the IMOMA pedestal. In the end, they can not be easily seen or touched. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b0784b3e9b088a2f2bd1275847814ebb_hd.jpg Kinships of Destiny 2 The truck load of smashed, discarded and stacked autos on the truck's flat bed is in relation to the abandoned home elevated on railroad ties in the middle of an agricultural field located in the Metro Phoenix desert. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c7a4f69c8ff48ac6feec3063ebccd7d5_hd.jpg "MASKED/MARKED/MEASURED" The viewer is looking at a 16 sectioned aerial surveillance view of the Ground Zero/Twin Tower Memorial in NYC. The three words of its title "push" three sections out of the grid setup (see next image). The words allude to not only the terrorist attack but the numerous years of subsequent investigations, public hearings, site design processes, "back room" vested interest negotiations, etc. regarding the politicized process of building the memorial. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/af816d428368d16d5726ee615797d813_hd.jpg Frames/Framed 3 The words FRAMES and FRAMED are printed on the monitors. The monitor's images are in real time and scutinize the suspended photograph and the viewer(s) engaged in viewing the installation. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4690d9d7f42a93dc12ab50f446e097f7_hd.jpg "INSPECT/SUSPECT" Upper right photograph https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/04356f9ed83efd52b74485da7815828d_hd.jpg Crawl Space 3 Overall, the emphasis of dance movement within the performance was of a horizontal nature. This accentuated the dance's thematic context and the Church's spacial relationships between the floor and very elevated ceiling. To further enhance the floor movement, each television and their two cameras were "platformed" on pedestals only four inches in height. All the cameras at this point in the performance remained stationary in their pedestals as seen in this image. However, please notice when viewing the last image (7), the dance floor is strewn with the cameras and each with their sixty feet of cords tethered to their televisions. This chaotic repositioning of the cameras by the dancers during the last half of the performance heightened not only the dance's narrative, but the upside down or sideway repositioning of the cameras gave seldom seen, if ever, points of view on the dance floor for the audience members. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4cf68123e50342afe9e0f102d1b4c5cc_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 3 This uppermost monitor in the installation played a DVD of the CHASE BANK Headquarters in downtown Phoenix. The looping video showed the sky's transition from clear to cloudy, an American flag flying atop the building, and helicopters and airplanes in their flight paths passing by. Many of the bank's policies regarding the housing industry were responsible for the tremendous economic downturn of states throughout the Southwest. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/82b9ea641f957400499e10083379cd29_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 4 Viewers interacting with the installation and at times in discussion and "choreographic movement" with each other. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/78702233f93b6a7325358a899b6f2109_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 3 The forty three images within the installation were arranged according to the procedural process I went about in documenting Dublin. Billboard imagery that was quite prevalent within the city's confines set the installation's thematic context related to the "Celtic Tiger". The two TV monitors broadcast real time imaging of the installation and the viewer's movement within it. The scanning camera directly across the room from the monitors was readily identified as the source of imagery on the left monitor. The other camera was centered on the wall above the two monitors. However, it was not easily identified as a camera since most people were not aware at that time as to how miniaturized CCTV technology had become. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bee1f41d255f853872779ffcd8fcac6f_hd.jpg Memorials 3 John Smiley's "Happy Face" in the suspended renovation space of the gallery along with one of the monitoring cameras on the perpendicular wall. Previous to the renovation, this part of the space was covered with fake wood paneling. With its removal, the underlying walls were left "as is". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0678dc78db21727cfe9d17c532ab9cb0_hd.jpg DISSATISFACTION 3 The floor billboard image on its backside is from a developer's housing site being stripped of its natural desert vegetation for a landscape that is more readily identifiable to those moving from more temperate climates Desert landscapes don't sell as easily to new residents. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/296a067b9fccac00abc93ee2b56d380d_hd.jpg Messages 3 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/df7bbc07413212957b2ed2114d0bb3d2_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 3 The full title of the photocase was "Perceptual Strata/Perceptual Screens/Observational Grounds". It also contained an Artist Statement and a creative written response to the overall images by Deborah Sussman Susser. She is an internationally recognized writer and art critic. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fe16853e985b051f7b4693ec50ad3098_hd.jpg Falsifications 3 The "machine" aligned against the "garden". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fa8b486f9132ba42e6fcd238eca42c38_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 3 The larger sides each show three different photographs but with all six creating a crossing narrative of imagery. The facing center side has set within it the word MONUMENTS. This image is of "warehoused" saguaros. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/17c6531346ab44d1b8793b8b147fc265_hd.jpg OIL/GAS On the frame's left side are the title words. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/030d45f65fa38f9911431efbdbb6ac02_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds 3 With some of the most prolific number of billboards I have seen in any country, the realization quickly took place that the billboards and their surroundings could make for some interesting photographs. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fb61ab44bd56245adda866251bb46e27_hd.jpg Weights/Measures 3 A overturned and burned out car in the docklands area of Dublin. Another visual reminder that all is not as "polished" as we wish for in the world. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7ea82bd946119d998a201e82cc941192_hd.jpg Fragment/Fragments 3 History suggests that empires never succeed in the long run because their governmental policies towards "others" are exclusive and not inclusive. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bd1c665302d93abc5f027f017ad26657_hd.jpg Kinships of Destiny 3 After World War Two, the American car and home were increasingly designed with planned obsolescence. We are witnessing the results of this in the Southwest during the current and very deep economic recession. The abandonment of so many homes and their lack of any maintenance by the banks has set their deterioration at an even more quickened pace. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3f261bd441853b884b0ac179d799f3dc_hd.jpg "MASKED/MARKED/MEASURED" detail The three words were "plated" and then painted black and dry brushed with silver paint. The hand made frames were given the same treatment. This makes for a somewhat gritty, industrialized appearance. For me, this lends itself to my imagery in its urban architectural realm and, at times, the technologically oriented structures situated within them. With the TT Memorial primarily two waterfall basins, the sixteen sections were rendered "watery" for even more evocative nighttime imagery. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/abd0e0bdfecf2bf88d03874fe250b35e_hd.jpg Frames/Framed 4 The two monitor's with the left one broadcasting my documenting the installation. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/65c4248ec9c7ced844c3b5df72170cc5_hd.jpg "INSPECT/SUSPECT" Lower left b&w photograph https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/78044851a4951f5d1ea0002c10fa5f41_hd.jpg Crawl Space 4 During the performance's duration, the imaging on each television would range from being highly abstract to quite representational. The proximity of the dancers to the cameras often created this along with the widely varied expressive lighting conditions. Since the dance space intentionally had no "behind the curtain area" for the dancers to take rest, they did so at the television pedestals. However, it was at these individual points in particular that the cameras were repositioned and accelerating stages of chaos were achieved. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/61d3b902fac72e92c3f2e624a7f85e86_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 4 Three monitors on two legged table with backend mounted on wall. The two monitors placed sideways on table are facing the panning camera on the perpendicular wall. One monitor plays a video of Lady Justice atop the Arizona State Capitol Building. The other monitor plays the American flag flying atop an observation tower with a panning camera next to it. The tower is on the roof of the Maricopa County Jail made famous by "Sheriff Joe". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f6ac18ec9bb2ba8aa19e181f7641a3ed_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 5 The floor sculptural form which contains in its underside most of the control devices for the sequencing of images from five of the installation's six cameras and broadcast on the two smallest monitors on top of the floor form, https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a4f0a9c6864d3779f2f82b32647d2823_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 4 A key thematic image was billboarded above this camera. The was from a Guiness Billboard on the transit bridge suspended above the River Liffey in downtown Dublin. The image was of a women's eyes with the word FEEL imposed over her face. The image was part of a major advertising campaign by the brewery. The image not only appeared on numerous billboards throughout the city, but on bus exteriors and interiors besides appearing in print media. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/88d1c564d1fed9fb45a0e810a33093ed_hd.jpg Memorials 4 A portion of the gallery that was already transformed. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9aef4eead7f46a0d2b8cc62b750d5cdb_hd.jpg DISSATISFACTION 4 Directly below the TV is a surveillance camera which monitors the stripped desert image and the viewer's "foot traffic" around the billboard. This monitoring amplified the lack of reverence for and the inherent fragility of our desert environment. Landscape and architectural critics of Phoenix often reference the city as having the board game dynamics of Monopoly. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8aa385afb4958daa13917c46eb59c341_hd.jpg Messages 4 Two forms with two different images of the Columbus Monument in New York City. The left form has a back sided view of it with the Trump Tower looming in its background. The right form shows the statue's most expressive side in what I interpret as a very arrogant frontal pose. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9bc60b645900cf7df217b1ab578cf2a7_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 4 Instead of showing all 40 photographs here, I chose 18 images to represent the overall set of photographs and their photocase. The full set can be sent upon request (denisg@asu.edu) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/45a6d059c8a84721863276ace4473978_hd.jpg Falsifications 4 The American Flag is used for designating the location of the model homes in new housing developments. The flag drives a stake into the landscape and "legitimizes" the developer's actions. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d89af48ed5f91cbd7f1024582dcfc0a0_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 4 Crushed and stacked autos on flat bed truck. This image was also incorporated into the print titled "Kinships of Destiny". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/725230aa0f18caeb91c8d5d6230499ba_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds 4 There are more dual image panels than seen here. Also, unlike any other of the art works on this website, the work has never been displayed. It is designed to be displayed in a corner with half the forms on one wall and the other half on the other wall. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/be6c9a3782fdb80d843e23a780b87954_hd.jpg Kinships of Destiny 4 A close-up view of the monoprint's title area . https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c8bc5aea779c3235066aba860d61bef8_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (1) As previously stated, the show's images are sourced from surveillance cameras. The show included six self made framed images that were painted with the black/silver process. The images were 3.3 x 4.4 inches in size. Their frames were 12 x 24 inches. The elongated, horizontal emphasis alludes to the panning surveillance imagery origins. All of the images were of an individual(s) passing through a city's aged and often grimy confines. This image "initiated" the idea of the "descent" into the city when first appearing on the iPad. This ideation is described in the next image description. (Other related images shown later) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b30feeb4aecc18c6c463634b4d6459d5_hd.jpg "INSPECT/SUSPECT" lower right b&w photograph https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5acdf52a1fe3f404a09d802ea087d9cd_hd.jpg Crawl Space 5 While not all of the "crawling movement" took place along the backsides of the television pedestals, it predominated there. It also made for a very "slow motioned effect" in contrast with some very fast paced vertical dance expression taking place on other areas of the dance space.. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d81a9ff049bce0f2ba4048530e7563a6_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 5 The largest monitor of the four plays twenty two different videos addressing the economic crisis of the Southwest interjected with the panning camera's monitoring of the two side monitors and the viewers responding to the installation's components. Printed on the monitor"s glass is the word CHASED. A speaker next to the monitor plays a continuous loop audio track of selected sounds made during the twenty two video recordings. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2dcf55573dc42e790325a7e9c5edbfdc_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 7 Two central thematic images in the installation were derived from the large scale exterior entry facade collage type mural of the Colorado History Museum. The depictions were of a Native American and a pioneer woman (next two images). https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c75d6869146198c99a3293cf2b2a71b9_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 5 From my viewpoint, the imagery was quite timely with my probing process as to the dynamics of Ireland, and Dublin in particular, going through such dynamic changes tagged as "The Celtic Tiger". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d807be37d5365b2d613f62c0f96f7d4d_hd.jpg Memorials 5 The "Happy Face" monitor with one of the 5 cameras above directed towards one of the Ground Zero flag images. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/dfff25254d6e3fc1b1fdc07c3da50e14_hd.jpg Messages 5 The form containing the word MESSAGES. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0d7a99ef3ffb8dc010c9cb3c3cb2adfe_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 5 What I didn't anticipate when beginning this project were the number of images in the end that varied from my initial ideation. The number of figurative sculptures and elements within the overall number of images was not anticipated. It had a pronounced influence on future work. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9d384a6a0b358e8261662b9a6568ca9b_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 5 Construction trucks parked on a man made hill. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/42361e565b25127aafa02438fc216a44_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds 5 In my travels, it also become apparent that though the country was building at a break neck pace, it was not always doing so with the best grade materials. Thus, the numerous billboards photographed in a deteriorating state became a visual metaphor for this state of affairs. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f62703b9c6ab81704c195069c6d78497_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (5 &6) The viewer is looking at two of six larger images in the show. They are more "pulled back" aerial views of urban freeways. They serve as a "descent" into the city from the other four larger images which are distant and glittery city views to the smaller surveillance pedestrian images. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fa417da68550810e2fce5bc85424e1bb_hd.jpg "SUSPECTS" 2011 Installation incorporating a CCTV surveillance system. The system's panning camera monitors the suspended photograph and the adjacent convex surveillance mirror. The mirror surveillances the installation, gallery and viewers (suspects). The CCTV monitor broadcast the camera's imaging. The TV faces towards the wall and is reflected in a second convex mirror suspended on the lower wall. The word SUSPECTS is printed on this mirror. A black box to the right of TV is the automatic controller for the surveillance system https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/56d824a1783bee54b623a675661f8e1f_hd.jpg Crawl Space 6 Depending on the viewer's perception, what at first can appear quite abstract becomes seen as a dancers leg and hand crawling across the television screen. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e5d62ec57e81b82b1b25a29133aa5a9a_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 6 One of the twenty two videos. It is of the Street of Dreams Storefront Church in Phoenix. The front windows reflect the street and pedestrian traffic passing by. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2772f49089d3e1fe72445f7320098ae2_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 7 The Native American image monitored on the gallery's east wall. The word DISTANCES is printed on the monitor's screen. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8303dff721415bc06098d8dc29e31400_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 6 Other advertising campaigns quite prevalent at the time were automobile ads. Increasing auto sales are often economic indicators of a surging economy. This billboard was actually in the process of being transitioned from one ad to another. A worker was on a ladder pasting up the auto based imagery. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8ec6357f10de86b119cfcf1a6cf8a549_hd.jpg Memorials 6 The opposing monitor with an image of the Twin Towers on another flag. I took the image previous to 9/11. Before 9/11, I had created three sculptures incorporating imagery of the Twin Towers. Depending on one's point of view, these skyscrapers represented what could be so right or wrong with America's position in the world. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3591bb98ca307904a548ce7f39e398d5_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 6 This image and the remaining ones within this album will "speak" for themselves. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/53641cc445853a3f3d7b620c0ab1672e_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 6 Saguaros transplanted into a corner configuration. A massive earthmover is parked in their corner. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a1c7a83b02d5e7a196a03a7166ad04ce_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds 6 One of the many deteriorating billboards along a freeway. The main means of travel during my journey. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b7df23ffeb02eadf9adadde5da1733b1_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (7) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c4af3cbfa63cd15ec992e936473d2154_hd.jpg "SUSPECTS" A closeup of the installation's eye level components. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/404b6d220545305f0a4076d9d91658ee_hd.jpg Crawl Space 7 As mentioned in the descriptive text for image 3, the cameras and their cords transition from two of the stage's edge areas to eventually occupy central stage along with all the dancers. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e416b1962b980f24a6092c5a44af6daf_hd.jpg Chase/Chased Another video and one that shows pigeons and other birds coming and going atop a Washington Mutual Billboard showing children playing on a swing set with bold text over it stating HOME OF THE FREE. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/aff257dad3e7c9758a56d063de3ebb73_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 8 The image of the pioneer woman that was suspended billboard style to the left side of the Native American monitor. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/af03f3c91c9d404c7f9058043e8b78b5_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 7 On the other side of the auto billboard was another billboard image of a male's backside with numerous tattoos all of which were corporate symbols and logos. The very low two sided billboard was placed on the floor in front of, and centered between, the two monitors. An observation of mine and a aside to this, were the prolific number of televisions being installed in pubs throughout the city. The conversational dynamics within pubs were rapidly being transformed to a lesser engagement between people and with television dominating and directing the social scene. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/cadcca2edc6bb14d7521c02027ececea_hd.jpg Memorials 7 A view from the north end of the gallery showing the opposing monitors. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e4085a697e23fadb879aeb95337369de_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 7 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ad01ea9aad68dfb993dc05a4436c06b8_hd.jpg Desert(ions) 7 A pile of used tires. Their are numerous pilings throughout the Sonoran Desert. They become quite massive over time. Once in a while they are ignited by lightening from thunderstorms or arsonist. The dense black smoke can continue for days or even weeks. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/522e5267f05d5badcd00e0846dfc414c_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds 7 The image that gave me the idea for using a dual image format for this art work. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4f8d6e38507c20ac802a55ff9db4f6e5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/39dc6b5e578a90a024459aaab74f87ea_hd.jpg "SUSPECTS" A closeup of the mirror on lower perpendicular wall and the TV on the floor. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3438a1d5d853d009508d4d8ecb657181_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 8 A video of an abandoned building. Birds and traffic again are a part of the scene. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a15b6afdee9d482f17e0f70112def0fb_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 9 Part of the installation's thematic currency was portrayed in this image of a banner displayed in the downtown area advertising a show addressing cultural and racial issues at the MCA/Denver just previous to the Biennial. A church steeple is in the image's background. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e95264b726dfd86994f19bae6868d710_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 8 The overturned and burned out car was found on a main traffic artery in the harbor area. I came upon this kind of auto numerous times in my photographic surveillance of the city. The most emblematic image was this and another car in a meadow area of Phoenix Park. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/742e8a82ec6f76a8b4438617966ef84c_hd.jpg Memorials 8 The Twin Tower flag mounted on the west wall and its monitoring camera on the north wall. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d6f8deb9a793abd291a07676b484840c_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 8 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a6bd4c98ab4bf4f4cc6223c08d5f29ea_hd.jpg Chinese Screens/American Blinds An image taken while standing still at a toll booth and rest stop plaza. These areas often had the largest billboards and grandest expressions of any seen on the journey. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b74b4f475e5aa0a00685949b111691e2_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (4) - front image The traditionally framed photograph towards the front is one of four more distant city views. Most often, the name of the city under surveillance is unknown or misidentified. The titling of the show's images are all left anonymous to suggest the anonymity of the sources and the lack of identity even in the pedestrian type imagery. The frames for the six latest images are not self made, they are framed by a frame shop. For most show's, the chose is to make all the frames. For this exhibition, I wanted to initiate the "descent" into the city"s grittery aspects with having "cleaner" frames for the larger glittery images. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/31bd0fc2c18d5a57be9804b85d00292f_hd.jpg "SUSPECTS" The suspended photograph being panned and monitored in the installation. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ae916217a14126b1d7afdc116d04c2e4_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 9 A video of a home that was foreclosed and in the midst of its destruction by earth movers. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5eb4e9011e5567d6a8afa44137d64e7b_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 10 An abandoned billboard in the downtown area that had been "tagged" on both sides. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1f37a057df1e79dc1514a7878ac79d7a_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 9 With Dublin going through such an accelerated period of economic, historical, and cultural transformation, it seemed very fitting to incorporate images of power and change. The power company stacks in the harbor were quite representative of this within themselves. The darkening skies made the image also representative as to "be careful what you wish for". https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b3a427272686232e07c51a59a6238e9e_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 9 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e673982583aaca04429569158557c864_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (4) (refer to previous image) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/dcc1e0ea91823858125130b3e818c4b0_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 10 An abandoned gas station in rural Texas with Interstate 10 traffic zooming by in the back ground. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4f29309e41f6619cce0eb565e5e5ee80_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 11 A "weathered" billboard outside the downtown area. For me, it served as a metaphor regarding issues within our society that never come to any common sensical point of resolution. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/513e46870ff28fd612d84199a3398f5a_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 10 The "introductory image" of the radar surveillance tower atop the newly expanded facilities at the airport were also quite representative of Dublin's rapid alteration. The image also played into the installation's ideation of probing. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/67cbed7e7857bcc37cbe09512560580e_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 10 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ff6ca4009b2399d2415f735d988a341b_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (1 & 2) First two images in the show seen as viewer enters the room. Directly across the room from this entry area are two more of the distant city images. Thus, the "descent" begins here. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/264d30c04e65805ee1cb01db3a631f60_hd.jpg Chase/Chased 11 A video of an auto junk yard along a city street. Two cars are elevated on mechanical pedestals behind the fenced in storage yard. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/aa58696b3a696f9c4a784e797095e73d_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 12 The abandoned Target store on the city's west side served as a metaphor for all those minorities in the community that were receiving the brunt of the various issues. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5fdd0435c297770bd745782865807b07_hd.jpg Perceptual Grounds 11 While it is difficult to select a limited number of images of the forty three displayed in the installation, I chose this image to represent the individual isolation that often occurs when societies as a whole go through such large scale transformations. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9d58df9f7f9cda5d974765821cdf9e21_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 11 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3a3b3282f9d3d8925beb3d939c81b911_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (1) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d9a436a44cfe2a7e2ec058303f8dc935_hd.jpg Divisions/Divides/Distances 13 The Quest Building in the heart of downtown served as a metaphor for the "divide and conquer" policies imposed on the community by various governmental and private sector institutions. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/41530a58eb4c286172ae23a6569385f2_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 12 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3bf8025572395723d47be9d3841a7155_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (2) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/851778953c7074e851e338f003d5ff42_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 13 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8be86b0eb1922147c7d056c12f2fb1ac_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (4) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e98a410ea5c53d04b2d0246187de12bd_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 14 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/49b4c25e4d3abf8479137deff60d163b_hd.jpg gallery shot https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0a9cee9c7622d84272b3d5abd00eae5b_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 15 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/baf663fbaef45fefa0d638854420b9f7_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (2) In this image the frame can be seen as to its industrialized/grittier appearance. As stated previously, this is for its relational aspects to the gritty confines of the street. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/154ea5553bd086f950b410365c63086a_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 16 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/65a1663b2054a9ce8eb1dff942e412d9_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (2) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e5f86a3ea31e310b80ced07f4d88d322_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 17 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5de8f4fb47844547e1aae2f69299e0d9_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (3a) This image and "Anonymous" (3b) were together in one frame. Centered between the two images, in a recessed area, is a 1/4 inch in height word: SHADOWED. The two images and the word helped set up the surveilance context of the six framed works being shown together. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/180edb6e7e2e4c125c75571ccc251643_hd.jpg Perceptual Strata 18 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9d8060dbb887153732ad748fb9a656ea_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (3b) The only part of the image that changes from the other one is the passing of the group of pedestrians and the possibility of their being "tailed" by the Surveillance Security Staff. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/32d64a3c9a626ea915f32afe9419a6c8_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (4) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4551bcf0b2fac00afb81b77dcced1099_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (5) The types of surveillance cameras resourced are quite varied. A partial list includes security, governmental, traffic, educational, construction, weather, and pedestrian. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3a72f10f2757afebef3e48ac36fac74c_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (6) https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/37fc637e5859c4f94099145cc5ba7965_hd.jpg "Anonymous" (7)