TRILOGY (O)

Trilogy (o) was an installation of 3 works responding to the symbol of a bull’s eye. Contact Sheet of Nike Missiles for a Moon Calendar informed Moon Calendar: 31 inkjet prints of the rear view of U.S. Nike missiles arranged in a daily rotation to coincide with the waxing or waning of the moon. Bull’s eyes are drawn on the back of each print, and raised bullet holes on the front. Trilogy (o) draws attention to the bull’s eye as a diagram for simultaneous conditions, such as the orbit of planets or the shape illustrative of a sound wave, as well as a target for shooting. The installation of the prints implements a scarred moon calendar in a circuitous movement that conflates images of war missiles with moon orbs. There is a hinted grief in the images for bullets make space and define time.


In the installation at Human Resources a single bullet was installed in the gallery floor at the exact center of the building’s ground floor. A NASA sound recording of a near “bright star” positioned at the door of the gallery, projecting a sputtering two-tone rhythm of the star in and outside of the gallery. A gallery assistant changed out the prints each day, arranged to correspond with days of the week mapping the full or new moon occurring at the time of the exhibition.