Sea Monkeys on Ice tells the tale of two sea monkeys struggling to balance their personal identities, family lives, and low-level participation in Russia-United States Cold War relations.
Video, Sea Monkeys, raspberry-pis, meme machine, multi-faceted USB hardware, imitation modernist furniture, geraniums and orchids, installed at the Purchase College Dolly Maass Gallery and Equity Gallery, 2018.
Raymond, a Sea-Monkey from the American colony, shares a story from his time in the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1960s, when he was employed to map remote regions of the USSR. In this account, based on a true story told by my paternal grandfather, the Soviets discovered that they could distract American surveillance with large decoy construction sites. Part of a larger installation, "Sea-Monkeys on Ice."
