Comments on: wendover report no. 3

By: matt mc

matt mc — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:37:34 +0000

CHAS! did you do the clui residency, or were you just checking out wendover?
ROB! i totally agree, weird interesting stuff out here, much of it is sad and awful, but still very interesting. there are a ton of weapons made and tested (and then ultimately stored or incinerated) here in utah. seems to be one of the states biggest cash-crops.
re: ghost towns: the work i am doing down here is essentially the next chapter of the future so bright project: investigating abandoned architecture in the american west from the early pioneers through the end of the cold war.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:06:42 +0000

The Western landscapes have a vibe. It’s good to see the results of your field trip, a good complement to ghost towns. Military bases are strange, all this destructive energy with unlimited funding. In most cases they didn’t use the unlimited finding to avoid polluting the land, but maybe it had not quite entered our cultural consciousness yet. Land crimes. There is a famous book that argues for legal rights for the land itself.
I think Dugway was where they developed chemical and biological weapons, which means they tested them there in the open.
Maybe a travelogue when you get back?

By: chas

chas — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:46:16 +0000

Holy crap, I was telling a friend on Sunday that I gashed my hand and snapped my favorite camera strap trying to hop that very chain-link fence! (Hard to do with a camera around your neck.) Enjoy Wendover. I loved the hell of it out there and need to find an excuse to get back.