Small works: garden

link to process and documentation of the performance piece https://vimeo.com/190417811 

I used to go a lot with friends to this abandoned missile silo in the Everglades it's hidden, but it's a spot that I've grown up in.It's a military base from the 1960s during the race to space/Cuban missile and it still has a missile there underground. Since its such a well hidden place gang relations take place , and a mutual friend got shot there and then was found floating in one of the canals there. He was only 18 years old, and a photographer taking pictures found the body. This piece is a tribute to him, the glow in the dark paint and space like soundtrack i played on a casiotone m-85 consists of how the area looks at night which was around the estimated time of death. Since there's not pollution around you see shooting stars clearly at night and can actually look at planets no problem without a telescope. There is a little jail/holding cells for i presume war hostages, and there's a basketball courts where different people helped build a garden there in commemoration to our friend. The continues circle i kept drawing around myself represents vanitas, or the so called infinite circle of life. That is the connection i made to the garden assignment is the one we built for him. This happened two years ago, but I remember is because i went to the silo about two weeks ago, and i remembered everything.