The whites too shall pass: perhaps sooner than other tribes. Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? gone. Where is the eagle? gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.'
Chief Seattle, on being offered an area of Indian land by the United States government, 1854.
Artist's statement:
"5 old record-players, some dead fish and 10 cuddly toy seals are among the debris littering Mike Stubbs' Desert Island. 200 water-filled durex hang low over 100 sandcastles. 3 TV screens lie semi-buried in the sand showing simple video loops. The work stems from the artist's '. . .growing fear of ecological holocaust becoming greater than that of nuclear holocaust'."
Video Positive Commission.
New Commission.
[LESS]The whites too shall pass: perhaps sooner than other tribes. Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? gone. Where is the eagle? gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.'
Chief Seattle, on being offered an area of Indian land by the United States government, 1854.
Artist's statement:
"5 old record-players, some dead fish and 10 cuddly toy seals are among the debris littering Mike Stubbs' Desert Island. 200 water-filled durex hang low over 100 sandcastles. 3 TV screens lie semi-buried in the sand showing simple video loops. The work stems from the artist's '. . .growing fear of ecological holocaust becoming greater than that of nuclear holocaust'."
Video Positive Commission.
New Commission.
