02 December 2007

Jack Strange to Land Rainbow

At the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery a few weeks ago, this tiny piece by
Jack Strange caught my eye...and though almost the whole show was
composed of really good work, Strange's piece was memorable
in that latent, ha-Ha way when I realized that his "Spinning
Beach Ball of Death" is actually a lift from the little icon that
comes up when an action is waiting to be executed (on a mac).
Which is only really funny when you consider the work in
the light of All Painting, Ever.

ANYWAY, on the highway coming back from the MIA show,
with all the trucks going by and at the same time thinking about
big art installations, big things in general, and then from that
to rainbows,
it occurred to me that on a nice, long stretch of highway, it's
theoretically possible to create a massive moving chain of these
18-wheeler trucks, - maybe even one several miles long.
And, let's say they were painted the in full color spectrum, from
end to end (e.g. the first twenty trucks would articulate a subtle shift
from red into orange, and so on) so that the experience of viewing
the piece (from the side of the road) could last several minutes
(if the trucks passed by slowly)...and could MAYBE even change
the entire way that light is perceived as the piece goes by.

Like, grounding a rainbow.

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