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  • deconstructing santa
  • Home
  • The trailer
  • Gilberton
    • The lot
    • 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
    • Haloing
    • The second haunting
    • the pit
    • Floods >
      • Flood 1
      • Flood 2
    • disappearing act
  • nepa
    • Sahara inn
    • Null murder
    • Sheepdog massacre
    • Spy bovine
    • taxidermy
    • The bow hunter (poetics of structured chance)
    • bananas
  • Santa
    • Mall santa
    • church santa
    • santa house
    • Santa house 2
    • real estate santa
    • mall santa 2
  • Ronald
    • Ronald
    • Ronald 2
  • i robber to you tonight
  • The black cube
  • White cubes
    • White cubes
    • Mathieu's cube
  • union
  • The stream of jewels
  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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