Donut to Spiral - 2004 - 7 min

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I always liked to look at the passing landscape through the window.
This place is an immense natural range in which to move, while always remaining at the same point.

It lets you in while never allowing a comprehensive vision.
The dimensions are altered in a way that it becomes difficult to decide if it is reality or a maquette.

It could be the 3D for a playstation game, even though I can catch the wind and be surrounded by the scent.

This is the first time that I pass through these territories yet I find that these images were already in my memory. Those recall well-known stories with only the actors missing.
It is like being on a huge movie set, in Easy Rider they ran after freedom,
in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point they where running away, for Gus Van Sant it is a place to get lost.

I always thought that Hollywood fiction (with comics, gadgets, cartoons and so on), created new characters. Now I see that these characters are real and seem to live up to inspire the market of global imagery.

There is a need here for huge signs like these donuts as big as houses that, via Hollywood, impose themselves over standard sizes. While on the other side of the world you can see billboards bigger than buildings even though there is no more free space.

I should remember to take my vitamins!

This landscape is similar to the one where Tarkovsky adapted the Zone, where to find the essence of life. What a strange idea for a future; it reminds me so much of the past.

It seems like no man’s land, with no rules and no laws, where small communities with different philosophies are born.

And also from here the space probes are leaving to conquer other planets.
In order to discover new philosophies or to confirm their own?

I wonder if donuts on Mars will have the same size.

In Woody Allen’s future, at least in his film Sleeper, the bananas became gigantic. Slightly bigger than they actually are now.

Natural

Artificial

This trip had a destination! This image is disappointing. It ruins the idea of beauty and perfection we normally request from things.

This is a dissolved image, showing an artwork marked by time.
At this moment you can’t even see the dark red water, one of the reasons why Smithson chose this site.

This is what interested him. The idea of entropy, the inevitable disintegration of all objects in nature.

The two of them? I don’t know…but it is nice to look at them…maybe they are the protagonists of another film.

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