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  • Gilberton
  • The police chief
  • Police chief update
  • Voice to skull technology or Word of God
  • Candy man
  • The purloined letters of Gilberton
  • The descent
  • Real estate performances
  • Spaghetti and meatballs
  • Burning Love
  • Shen'doh fire
  • My Friend, Muhammad ALi
  • Mall santa
  • Haloing
  • The second haunting
  • Taxidermy
  • The bow hunter (poetics of structured chance)
  • Spy bovine
  • Sheepdog massacre
  • Sahara inn
  • Null murder
  • The trailer
  • Contact
Econo Lodge

The Bow Hunter

While working with Frank, I shadowed a bow hunter.  Dressed in camouflage he told me he felt like a "kid playing dress up."  It was symbolic because he did disguise himself, but in a different way and with different intentions.  He even used a spray which eliminated "all traces of human scent."
I accompanied and documented him during excursions.  I sat across from him, at the base of a tree, opposite and below his tree stand.  We sat in a triangle, silently, vigilantly, for hours.  We waited for something to occur based largely on chance.

The day unfolded in chapters: the dark of night, the dawn, the early morning, etc.  Elements characterized each block of time, for example, the sound of a flock of turkeys roosting during the last minutes of daylight.  We were not allowed to move.  In order to understand my surroundings, I watched him watch the woods.

I recorded videos of the hunter navigating his territory and included them in an installation.  The video played in slow motion on a projector in a storage room I covered with wood paneling.  Along the staircase leading to it were the two deer I mounted with Frank, who came to the gallery opening.

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AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA 2010
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