rest stop + stage

installation

Rest Stop + Stage utilizes video, still photography, drawing, and assemblage to map interrelationships between two sites, an abandoned Oregon Trail stage stop and its contemporary counterpart, a nearby interstate freeway rest stop. The two sites are a topological pair: stage stop and rest stop, settler grazing land and birds of prey preserve, a combat training range, a one-room schoolhouse, a grange hall, an interstate campground. Taken together, they reveal a cultural and technological palimpsest embedded in the seemingly empty landscape of the Snake River Plain.

credits

Dwaine Carver and Andrew Davis

Funding by Idaho Commission on the Arts