The Nike Missile, 2005

3.5" x 3.5" photograph

This photograph is shown

1. Framed 8" x 10" in.

2. inside stereoscope

8" x 5" x 9" in. as stereoscopic photograph/3-D

3. As 3-D projection/anaglyph

This is a ficitonal reportage photograph of a Nike Missile, perhaps the retrospective story of The Nike Missile's fate.There were hundreds of these all over the US beginning at the end of the second world war.The Millile has a halo above it, which symbolises it's innocense, since it in this ficitonal story, is smart and intellectual and disagrees with it's own purpose, it is in a sense a peaceful one, an outsider amongst the other missiles - much like artists often feel like outsiders, too.

I made this whilst in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, located on a former military site in the Marine Headlands, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco. It was surrounded by puppet guardsmen and plastic 1050's Pepsi bottles.I still wish I had gotten better photographs of it, since it was only 5 minutes away.

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