NANCY BAKER CAHILL:
Revolutions and Margin of Error
Set in two distinctive locations near the extreme poles of the Coachella Valley, the artist’s pieces use augmented reality, producing a singular experience for each viewer due to the ever-changing conditions of the desert. To the north, near the windmill farms, Revolutions alludes to the capturing of energy, which we require to remedy a man-made crisis. To the south, at the Salton Sea, Margin of Error presents the toxic outcome of human progress leading to an environmental disaster. This experience prompts viewers to ruminate on their own body within the space and setting of the landscape, dwarfed by the implied giant scale of the digital work. Both invoke what Timothy Morton terms hyperobjects - entities of such vast temporal, spatial and philosophical dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place.
