The Nike Missile, 2005

This is a ficitonal reportage photograph of a Nike Missile, perhaps the retrospective story of The Nike Missile's fate.There were hundreds of these all over the US beginning at the end of the second world war.The Millile has a halo above it, which symbolises it's innocense, since it in this ficitonal story, is smart and intellectual and disagrees with it's own purpose, it is in a sense a peaceful one, an outsider amongst the other missiles - much like artists often feel like outsiders, too.

I made this whilst in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, located on a former military site in the Marine Headlands, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco. It was surrounded by puppet guardsmen and plastic 1050's Pepsi bottles.I still wish I had gotten better photographs of it, since it was only 5 minutes away.