VAEDU chapter #3

Joy Prior
VAEDU 397
Sec. 001
Mark Graham
Chapter 3

Lange, Dorothea. Worldly Way Station on Route 91. 1953. MOA, Provo. Three Mormon Towns. Gelatin Silver Print.
In Dorothea Lange Three Mormon Town exhibited the gelatin silver print photograph captured my attention. The title World Way Station on Route 91 leads the narrative of image. Without knowing that the dropping electrical wires of the abandoned drive in Movie Theater were considered a worldly station by the people it would be mistaken as another economic crash. Even the olds mobiles driving by on the highway seem to be silently shunning the empty parking lot. The movie screen is faced towards the red-rock-mountains as if facing its own judgment. When one looks at the image they can only see the back of the movie screen and can just image the large white canvas blushing from the merciless sun. A rusted pole supports the sun-bleached block letter sign that reads CLOSED just above an advertisement for Disney’s Peter Pan. The world seems to have forsaken the station long ago, but I could not turn away from it.

Knep, Brian. Healing 1. 2003. MOA, Provo. Interactive Video Installation: Electronic Gallery.
The only way Brain Knep Healing 1 comes alive is to literally embrace the work, or at least walk all over it. He wanted to demonstrate sci-fi by modeling the mathematical growth of cells in an enlarged form. In the center of the dimly lighted room there are several white foam pads laid out across the floor that you expect to find in a daycare center and not at an art museum. There are projected swirls of orange and yellow worming across the foam pads. The blobs motionlessly curve around one another, until; the viewer dares to walk across the image. As one walks across the foam pads they cut a trail of yellow. Slowly the slice of yellow fill with fingers of orange and eventually the wound is scabbed over with an entirely new image of slender curves embracing one another. The combination of modern technology to imitate cell growth emphasizes the point that technological advancements (Vaccinations, antibiotics, and heart surgery) make healing possible.