During my study of the archaeology of technology at M.I.T. the word 'horizon' was often use in reference to a unification of peoples sharing commonstylistic traits or employing similar technologies. I have chosen to transform this term for my own use and to imply with it a new unification of peoples operatingwith interests of a larger human-ecological character.

My interest is to use the 'horizon' to exemplify the transformation of our relationship with nature. The installation serves to represent the conceptuallimits which create dual worlds of nature and man. The work also alludes to the metamorphosis of our conceptions to a point where all worlds become a coherentwhole. The separation is, in fact, just another construction of man.

This quest to find the horizon, to come to some fixed point of tranquility, is what finally leads one away from the interminable passage through thevideo landscape. At this moment it is the copper object glowing in the distance that draws one's attention. This house-like icon is framed from this vantage-pointby the seven foot square steel barricade which, although it remains a physical obstruction to passage toward the object, contains a cone-shaped surface whichrecedes from the viewer funneling vision to the icon beyond. The viewer now has two methods of approach. From each side of the barricade, a corridor isdefined. On one side I delineate this corridor with the unbroken length of the steel mesh, an imposing man-made barrier. On the other side the steel meshbarricade is broken only to be replaced by a large tangle of brush and fallen branches, a natural obstruction, which is no less an impediment to one's passage. Together they portray an enigma which envelop the copper object.

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