Visualized through the iconic landscape of Post War Americana, where memories still fresh from the Industrial Revolution pressed tightly against equally lucid visions of the future, my work explores the idea of 'a means to and end' as 'the end in itself' and the sometimes-illusory nature of progress. The idea finds its expression in the artifacts as they remain, long after the tension between tiki huts and rocket ships lost its ability to sustain the semblance of a higher purpose, fulfilled as it were, and rewarded with the temporal promise of an eternal payoff in the currency of designer colors, neon lights and two-tone...more
