Danial Nord's Monstrous Mouse
"I'm back to reality," says LA media artist Danial Nord as he explains his arduous struggle with the 18-gauge fence wire that forms the armature for the body of a hapless Mickey Mouse who lays dead or passed out on the floor of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park.
Nord is among the artists who received City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships last year, with the mandate that he push his work in a new direction. For Nord, whose recent work has focused on video art and installation, that new direction meant leaving the digital realm and returning to the physical. "I was building this big cumbersome thing in my studio, twisting the wire to the point of carpal tunnel, and watching this sphere evolve that was just the same as the one I might have been rotating on the computer," he says. "It was absolutely fascinating to be reverting back to the old school thing. It was really rewarding."
theme song bombard you as you enter the dark room in the gallery and step carefully toward the black structure sprawled across the floor.When you first move past the black velvet curtain covering the doorway, it's nearly impossible to see anything due to the darkness. You stand, waiting for your eyes to adjust, listening to the fractured sounds and cheerful drumbeats of the militaristic theme song that loops over and over, creating an eerie, jingoistic chant.
Gradually the shape begins to emerge, and you realize that you're standing alongside a massive icon of American pop culture, now sadly toppled and lifeless. State of the Art is at once a commentary on the state of media art, built so often on the critical interrogation of popular media and the disassembly of its materials and infrastructures, and a riff on America itself, an unconscious, plastic, gutted giant, its triumphs echoing mechanically from a now almost forgotten past.
Nord says the project began with the black plastic material, which he found entirely compelling due to its durability and the intriguing qualities of the ventilation slits. "I had made sculptures with television sets before," he says, "but I wanted to use just this one part. I wanted to create a monstrous sculpture with radiant light that was also a byproduct."
Nord spent several weeks roaming LA streets and alleys looking for discarded TVs while waiting to get permission to visit one of the city's hazardous waste disposal sites. "It's like purgatory for electronics," he says of the center. "It's like a huge airplane hangar with trucks from all over LA driving in with truckloads of electronics. Guys stand along a line disassembling them with screw guns, sorting the components, and then throwing what's left in these huge bins. The sound is incredible, and there is the dust coming up with light filtering through it." Nord likens the scene to that of a Dante-esque hell, but perhaps more visceral was the experience of seeing so much waste. "Our culture is about buying new things rather than fixing what's old or broken, but it's not fathomable how many tons of waste a day are produced," he says.
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Heloise: Reader asks for help in riding home of dead mouse's smell ...
DEAR HELOISE: Please, help me. I had a dead mouse in the ceiling of my walk-in closet. I have tried everything to get rid of the terrible odor. — Mary Reist, Warren, Pa.
Mary, this odor is one of the worst. The odor will not go away until the mouse completely decomposes. Yuck, I know.
You can try masking the odor with essential oils. Put several drops of an essential oil (like peppermint or clove) on a paper towel or cotton ball and set on a plate on a top closet shelf.
If you have an attic fan, turn it on to circulate as much fresh air as possible. As a last resort, you can rent or purchase an ozone machine, which will help “clean” the air of the smell. — Heloise
HELOISE is a syndicated columnist with King Features Syndicate, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio 78279-5000, fax 210-HELOISE.
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