A site-specific installation at Art Awareness, Lexington,
NY, June-September 1991. The installation was proposed and
created to address the local environmental problem of over-development
that threatens to pollute the watershed that feeds the reservoirs
that supply New York City's drinking water. On a broader
scope, it questions our technological culture's insensitivity
to the environment and to the indigenous peoples who live
in accordance with the earth.
This cul de sac community constructed around an existing
pool/lake included: three fenced in plots of wild flowers
surrounding a contemporary tipi with a satellite dish on
top, and a portable toilet plumbed to the pool where three
inflated rafts of garbage float. Centrally located inside
each tipi was a television pointed upward illuminating the
structure with flickering electronic light. Also emanating
from the center tipi was an audiotape of local Native Americans
telling creation myths and addressing contemporary issues.