This Place is a message
108 6”concrete cubes, 108 rolls of film, 2-channel soundscape, 24 hour loop duration
In this site specific installation, my collaborator Kei Ito and I entombed 108 exposed but undeveloped rolls of film in 6” concrete cubes, arranged in a row the length of a B-29 bomber, a plane of the kind that dropped the first atomic bombs in 1945. The work visually acknowledges the cemetery across Trenton Avenue from the Artyard Center’s residence site. A twenty four hour long audio loop portrays the work once done down the Delaware River from the Frenchtown, NJ gallery in Philadelphia, PA at the now long closed Midvale Steel Works, where my grandfather worked during WWII as an engineer and radiographer, and where he worked for the Manhattan Project, from what my research suggests.
Link to the exhibition’s announcement one the Artyard website.
