
What was, what is, and what might have been coalesce in this site-specific installation. Then | Now | a Dream is a collaboration between Dave Martin and Nathaniel Ancheta.
Made from common construction materials as well as found materials scavenged from the site painted an uncanny shade of supersaturated blue, four pronghorn antelope sculptures represent the landscape’s past and look with perennial hope to the blooming of the poppies on the hills and fields beyond. The antelopes represent several layers of tension between belonging and unbelonging; animals that once roamed the landscape by the thousands are conspicuously absent given the area’s designation in the Antelope Valley, an unnatural blue that provides a unifying coating to a variety of discarded consumer items. Forms from the past, materials from the present — the dreams of yesterday haunt the landscape like a specter.
Documentation film
This documentation film was shot during sunrise in early April, and at sunset in late summer. The film captures the changing landscape the Antelopes were situated in.
Music credits: Nightingale Bow by Polyphonics (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial (4.0) license.
Visit the antelopes at their permanent home at the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve
43201 35th St. W.
Lancaster, CA 93536
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