Convoy

With this installation I wanted to work primarily with objects and images that I collected during a trip through the southwest and California in 1999.Travel, migration, exodus, billboards, and Mexican swapmeets. I followed these guidelines:

Videotape the terrain at foot level as if the camera were attached to the front of a small vehicle.

Create a convoy of collected action figures and miniaturevehicles.

Each day the convoy will travel in increments across the floor of the gallery.

Convert the space into a landscape of billboardsand menus, pools of water.

Border crossings on either end of the gallery.

Pro-wrestler action figures perform a 360on skateboards over the pools after emerging from the border crossings, spinning, landing briefly, and bouncing up to continue their exodus into the southern desert.

Each meal of the trip photographed from New Orleans to the West Coast and back