TO-MORROW (to manifest)
Dimensional lumber, pyrotechnics, black powder propellant, detonation cord, digital video, audio
2015
ARCHIPELAGO
Michael Ashkin, Timothy Earl Neill, Roxanne Yamins, & The Koreatown Oddity
Helmuth Projects. San Diego, CA
TO-MORROW (to manifest)
There is land, and there is landscape. Land becomes landscape only through an ideologically crafted mise–en–scène process. TO-MORROW (to manifest) reinterprets the longstanding myth of the frontier - a culturally and artistically romanticized illusion of a better tomorrow, just over the horizon.
Captured in HD video and sound, TO-MORROW (to manifest) presents the scene of a natural tree line silhouetted against an open night sky. The setting, once the site of an 1860s homestead, was loosely inspired by the 19th-century depictions of romantic landscapes painted to promote the westward expansion of the United States. In the video, the natural scene is abruptly erased by the spectacle of a firework sign spelling out TO-MORROW. The landscape eventually reemerges from the smoke, but now in a more fragile and thus accurate representation of itself.
Captured in HD video and sound, TO-MORROW (to manifest) presents the scene of a natural tree line silhouetted against an open night sky. The setting, once the site of an 1860s homestead, was loosely inspired by the 19th-century depictions of romantic landscapes painted to promote the westward expansion of the United States. In the video, the natural scene is abruptly erased by the spectacle of a firework sign spelling out TO-MORROW. The landscape eventually reemerges from the smoke, but now in a more fragile and thus accurate representation of itself.