Dear Hart

Part 1 “Pillar of Fire”

A Pere David deer walks across the rim of the Grand Canyon. Later, deer walk through fire-scorched forests and jump from digital islands into the abyss. “Pillar of Fire” is a montage of landscapes, ranging from an abandoned mesa top pueblo to the cold war era “iron cross” Corona Satellite Calibration Target ruins in Arizona. “Pillar of Fire” is a biblical reference and a secular trope of catastrophic climate change.

Part 2 “How They dream. How we dream.”

We dream of the Pere David deer dreaming of buildings. The Pere David deer is an unusual deer with donkey tails whose antlers grow like tree branches. They are officially extinct in the wild, but they have been reintroduced to their homeland in China, exist in captivity in zoos and are bred for trophy hunting in the USA and New Zealand. The animated version is a hybrid deer interacting within anthropogenic environments.