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land of make believe (studio installation)
acrylic medium and paper on masonite, with wooden construction approximately 17’x 9' may 2005 / installed september 2005 made in the Church at Soaring Gardens
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land of make believe (left detail) approximately 3’2"x4'9" land of make believe (right detail) approximately 3'11"x5'10.5" |
This large scale 'billboard' collage/installation was made in the Church at Soaring Gardens as the first major work in the life:fear series. As a 'continental' composition, it explores the ‘cultural lens’ of a classic American media authority. I studied images published in LIFE magazine to investivate the roots of 20th Century American opinions (and contemporary reverberations) on progress, efficiency, survival, and authoritarian fear/faith dynamics from a human psychological perspective within the influences of apocalypse culture. The 1948-1955 years seem especially influential on current majority senses of ‘American Nationalism’ -- and building it through a common modernist idea of living, business, and technology. |
