MUTANT HILLS
Shown at the group exhibition A Store, curated by Chris Lux and Leigh Gallagher, at the Hayes Valley Market in San Francisco, Mutant Hills is a continuation of the process initiated in Of The Errors Involved in Teleportation. I designed the terrain of Mutant Hills digitally (see image below) and then translated into a two-dimensional pattern. While the viewer's body gave the former project a meaningful sense of scale, here I wanted this to appear as a model or a scene, with the Guatemalan worry dolls, trees, and mutant animals serving as a vehicle for viewers to projecte themselves into the landscape. In addition to these creatures, collaged xeroxes underlie some clear sections of the landscape. The images in the collage draw from heraldic crests, cellular automata, diagrams from David Hilbert's Geometry and the Imagination, and interference patterns I made myself from overlaying grids of regular shapes .
Mutant Hills, 2005. Coroplast, steel, paint, fur, ready-made objects.
