New work from my Semiotic Warfare series is currently being featured in the Images Forward exhibition at the Berlin Gallery.
Feedback Loop, Fourth Verse, 2010
Mixed media (video, automobile paint and acrylic mirror text in Cherokee syllabary on wood panels), “24” x 12”, 22.5” x 12”, 8″ video monitor. Video duration 4:05.
Cul-de-sac, 2010
Mixed media (video, automobile paint and acrylic mirror text in Cherokee syllabary on wood panels), 27” x 12“, 19.5” x 12”, 8″ video monitor. Video duration 4:07.
Airspace, Land and Other Purposes, 2010
Mixed media (video, automobile paint and acrylic mirror text in Cherokee syllabary on wood panels), 23.5” x 12”, 20″ x 12”, 8″ video monitor. Video duration 4:39.
Part of an ongoing series of mixed media work titled Semiotic Warfare, which utilizes phrases written in Cherokee syllabary, and a variety of media to examine postcolonial signifiers that define contemporary geographies, economic markets, political bodies and intercultural intercourse throughout North America. In this work the Cherokee syllabary becomes a coded medium to engage the viewer and the broader contexts of a particularized regional geography. These specific works provide glimpses into the imagination of a contested landscape that is being forcibly defined by the will of the market. In their investigation of life on the dirt, they dialogue with Postcommodity’s ongoing work addressing 21st Century colonizer strategies within the militarized zone of the Tohono O’odham.
