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Split-Flap Smoke presents a series of historical events defined by a transitory thing: smoke. The press-image of a plume emanating from something destroyed has served as a marker that resists resolution into a simple sound-bite or headline.
Cycling through at brief intervals, the split-flap display board gives one example after another of these signature events. The images’ persistence in the media coupled with the mechanical reproduction and the coarse pixilation continue a question of comprehension or legibility.
2005
Split-Flap Smoke, Challenger STS-51-L, 28 January 1985 (2005)
Split-Flap Smoke, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Cloud Map, 26 April 1986 (2005)
Split-Flap Smoke, Hiroshima_ Japan, 6 August 1945 (2005)
Split-Flap Smoke, LZ 129 Hindenburg, 6 May 1937 (2005)
Split-Flap Smoke, Mount Carmel Waxo TX, 19 April 1993 (2005)
Split-Flap Smoke, WTC NYC, 11 September 2001 (2005)
Split-Flap Smoke, Al-Burgan Oil Fields, May 1991 (2005)