kentucky perfect
Rolls of sod are laid end to end along the narrow aluminum structure. The tract of lawn measures approximately 22” wide and extends anywhere from 10’ to 25’. A wheeled light assembly continually moves across the grass along two rails. The rapid entrance of a reel mower from the opposite end occasionally interrupts this. The lights again return to sweep over the surface. Several times a day, a watering-boom is lowered and traverses the project along a separate set of rails, providing the appropriate volume of water through a series of misting nozzles.
The project incorporates an intentionally overstated measure of technology to explore the very role that technology plays in the culture in which we live. More specifically, the work – in its fantastical amplification of the technology’s use in the everyday - examines how this technology (communications, chemical, genetic) is used to control the environments we inhabit; as a means of making things more convenient, more comfortable, more aesthetic.
It reflects the reality of our culture’s interest in controlling and shaping the natural environments around us, and in this work the creation and maintaining of the ideal lawn. The absurdity through which this is obtained contrasts the reality of our culture, but only in the margin of its additional efforts. The excessiveness nature of the work reframes the reality outside of it, creating a moment in which the familiar is thrown into question and is seen again.