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Title
Crossroads/BAGGAGE BUILDING: telephone handset
Creator
Coleman, Johnny (American installation artist, born 1958)
David Zapf Gallery
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Artist Johnny Coleman described his installation "Crossroads/BAGGAGE BUILDING/Encrucijadas/BODEGA DE EQUIPAJE," located in the baggage building in the Santa Fe Depot, as a "found poem consisting of stories collected by following the tracks." The artist spent months traveling the California railroad to collect stories of migration and personal accounts of working on the railroad. These traces provided the material for the various elements in the installation, including audio narratives, music, various props, and construction elements. --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 03, Item 072)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Mixed media
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb56685599
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Luggage
Travel
Travelers
Telephone
Memory
Poetry
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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