UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Google Image Search- Any Size, No Filter: "Avi Kwa Ame; Spirit Mountain Nevada.; More..."
- Dye sublimation print on aluminum
- 24 x 36 in
- Douglas McCulloh
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Artist: Douglas McCulloh x
Douglas McCulloh
"Google Image Search—Any Size, No Filter: “Avi Kwa Ame; Spirit Mountain, Nevada; Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness; South McCullough Mountains; East Mojave; Walking Box Ranch; Mystery Ranch-United Catalysts”
(2022)
Dye sublimation print on aluminum
Courtesy the artist
Artist statement:
“The idea is a machine that makes the art,” said artist Sol LeWitt. This piece is created by the straightforward blueprint contained in its title. A Google image search transforms seven specific queries into a compound meta-photograph—105 images (including two of my own).
This representation is the contemporary shape of spirit. It is Avi Kwa Ame brought into being by a thousand moments noticed, appreciated, gathered. It offers light from basin and range, coyote and Joshua tree, ecosystem and spirit. It floats above the geographic place—multifold, luminous, dematerialized, available worldwide. Supplicants anywhere anytime undertake near-mystic actions to summon visions of Avi Kwa Ame into flickering existence at the altar of our screens.
- Created: 2022