Coffeyville
The Desperado trajectory, narrative of this project, is always fatal, and is inseparable
from the American dream, California and the desert.
Measuring
The Dalton brothers, two desperadoes, were on a mission to map the last uncharted
physical frontier - the inconsistencies and details that make up daily life. These
errors cannot be described by mathematics and are the last obstacle preventing the
complete virtualization of perception. The Daltons quantified the last remaining physical
evidence of their identity and disappeared into a spiral of death and destruction
from which there was no return.
Virtualization takes command
Coffeyville is built from the spent jet trash of the mechanical age. Its vortex is
a scene painting shed from Sony's Hollywood studios, which went redundant when computer
back drops became film industry standard.
The citizens of Coffeyville left the city to live immersed in a desperado world on
the virtual frontier. It combines the most extreme physical conditions with non government
approved testing for the latest reality technologies.
Components
The night rooms
Spaces under the artificial dunescapes transform day into night. the ceilings are
pools of water cast in translucent reinforced PVC, filtering the light and the heat.
The dunescape
the relatively flat landscape is bulldozed into an artificial dunescape, sand cast
in metal screening, which glimmers at sunset, held in place by redundant grain silos.Trailers,
dune buggies, barrels and tanks hold necessities, plumbing and living room spill out
doors - it only rains once a year.
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