I want people to look at the installations and look into the boxes and have that moment of ambiguity that makes one question whether one is looking at the real thing or an image. Earth with Protective Cover, 1995. In media culture language is plastic, pro forma, and constructed in such a way that the response is mediated, even before the person has a feeling. A sort of intellectual dialogue is going on, a setup. There is all that groundwork of theory and intellectualism in advertising and the media.
Much contemporary art is the same.
The response of the viewer is presupposed, as are the thought processes that lead up to it. There is always the chance that somebody who hasn t read all that theory and yet is intrigued enough to look at those images will get something from it. It reaches the dumbest and the smartest. Earth with Protective Cover, 1995. Replacing one kind of consumerism with another and never getting to the heart of the matter.