REBOOT_ Finished

Originally uploaded by love not fear

All computer software is released with bugs. Similarly, all relationships are fraught with things that could break the relationship. REBOOT_ explores the parallels between relationships and computer software.

The pieces consist of computer parts spray-painted and attached to a board, also spray painted. I then printed the model’s image on photo paper, and printed a different server error for each image, on vellum paper, and placed the vellum over top of the photographic image. Each server error is customized. For example, “ERROR: There was a fatal error in the /Love application. This may have been caused by a failure of the trust_bin_love.dll.”

The computer parts come, for the most part, from various failed laptops I’ve owned over the years.

The show opens tomorrow at Computer Central, 136 East Broadway, Missoula, MT from 5PM-8PM and runs through the month of June. If you are in the Missoula, MT area, please drop in and view the works.