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| Synthetic Theatre - photographic essay |
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| Looking At Land @ Duke Univ. Museum 1997; published 2003.UNC School of Law and Environmental Policy |
The alteration of land by human uses is also what drew me to Caroleigh Robinson's
work. She recorded the basic alteration caused by the automobile, on whose behalf we destroy so much land, by recording the
print a tire tread leaves. Her work, too, has moved on, but it is still about the elemental power equations of humans and
land-explosions of the internal combustion engine, explosions that remove hills and trees to make way for the engine. At the
same time, her work involving fire and explosives is always carefully planned, and is rigorously formal as the most elegant
abstraction or landscape.
Caroleigh's photographs were new to me, but as soon as I saw them, I knew they belonged
in the show. They are also about the marks we make on the land whether it is a flattened possum, the bullet holes in a highway
sign, or the sod that will never dress and interchange as nicely as the landscape it replaced.
Chuck Twardy, Curator
1997
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