Red Fever Green Fields, April - May, 2003. Installation for The Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN.
Aluminum tooling foil, cardboard, green vinyl, foam, black plastic, wood, plaster and edited audio track of Wagner "Ride of the Valkyries". Variable dimensions.

This work is inspired by a scene from "Apocalypse Now" where Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall) and his helicopter calvary battalion attacks a Viet Cong village that occupies a coveted surf location. The helicopters approach the village with Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" playing from external speakers, to create fear in the Vietnamese.

There are two perspectives to view the installation. The first revealing the armature of the sculptural objects as the visitor enters the gallery. The second, from the opposite side of the gallery, provides an unobstructed view of the explosion plumes and mountain range, without their supports. At this end of the gallery, an audio of the Wagner composition can be heard faintly coming from the corner of the room, emitting from one of the explosion plumes.