Exhibited at: John Sommers gallery, UNM (as a large digital print).
Description: Site-specific installation in Wendover, UT.
Diimensions: Variable.
Materials: Site-specific.
This piece was created during my Land Arts field study, when I spent time in Wendover, Utah. Old WWII ammunition storage houses stood alone out on the Bonneville Salt Flats, and police within Wendover have turned these buildings into training units. The buildings are littered with paper targets, dummies, trashbag walls, furniture, beds, all covered with bullet holes and set up as mock houses. With orange rope, I traced the path of each bullet in one particular target to the place that the bullet was shot from. With this piece, I was interested in the lack of connection between a shooter and his/her target. The gun is an instrument that kills from afar, and I wanted to reconnect person to person, away from machine.
