October 5th to October 19th, 2002

"The Conjugal Night" and "Nitron Lover"

An installation and video by Darrin Little

Outback, away from the chaos and self-loathing of yesterday, there is The Conjugal Night. Twin voyeur windows--a binary system of sorts--gaze into a landscape pregnant with tomorrow. The disinhibiting signal has finally been received: the orbiting shuttle and its crew, having punched through our daylight science and stagnating space/time continuum, drift over the bright Pacific in fugitive silence. Below the portal, a snapshot of Alexia compromised in Nature incites a cargo bay orgy NASA refused to broadcast. Here under the clip lights, Boston Ferns grow to embrace sections of The New York Times, itself pregnant with that universal dialectic: Hope and Despair. A fist of ferns will overcome this "absurdity of existence," and give rise to ovulating heat.

Across the way, Nitron Lover flashes on screen, bright and immediate: a sensory trip-wire hallucination. Images of Sequoia National Forest bleed into the midnight cityscape of Los Angeles, large and ancient and technological. Mission Control's pre-flight launch chatter gives steady pulse to this flickering body. Jump-cut back and forward bright lover; only 4 tunnels back to the roadside high we shared 2,000 years ago. This Glock 34's clip sequence explosions will bring tomorrow's narrative home, today.

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