This site-specific performance inside of Michael Heizer's "Double Negative" refers both to the Luminists and to science fiction film, a romantic vision of extraplanetary terraforming in a kind of time-based painting.
As we stare out at an almost Trancendentalist view of the American West, the space between our bodies parallels Heizer's cut in the landscape in front of us, as well as the distance between the two facing gaps of the earthwork.
The void is our mirror into ourselves. We have a gap between us, but also within.
As we contemplate the enormity of the oncoming evening, we reflect the common dreams of our audience to experience a beyond-self, which in the 21st century has meant 'home among the stars' or being part of the vast unending space of the universe.
The feeling is not unlike death, or the emptiness you feel at the end of a picnic at sunset with your lover, when you are satisfied but still yearning. I hope the work gives contemporary meaning to "Double Negative," which in its grand aesthetic terraforming experiment now serves as a vehicle for a communal fantasy about crossing the void of dead space to colonize other planets.