learning the sport

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All of these prints were made with 4x5 negatives contact printed and enlarged, combined with photograms of objects, xeroxes and writing on Ektacolor paper. Some images were shot from TV during broadcast and some shot on site. All are tongue in cheek with sexual inuendo.

The images are part of installations with performance as part of the viewing experience. In the baseball one, I built a pitchers mound on astroturf in the gallery with the same red dirt that was used then at Mile High Stadium where our then minor league team played. During the opening, I invited the baseball team from my college to come in uniform to stand in at the batters box and for the pitcher to throw and the catcher to catch. NO hits were done.

In the Football one, A living room rug turns into the astroturf football field. The living room is set up ready for watching the game with sports pages strewn on the floor. The scene is set with snacks, sound and a comfy lounge chair. As you move down into the field, the Refs are hung away from the wall so you need to move in and out to see the exhibit. Referencing a player "running a pattern" viewers move from each end of the field to pass each other in the pattern and play.

LEARNING THE SPORT:

images and installation pieces, 1982-1983

Learning the Sport: Baseball: Spitting. red man chew, pumpkin seeds, bubble gum

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Pitcher's Grip

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Brush Back

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Pitcher

Learning the Sport: Baseball: Arguing with the Umpire

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Bases

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Catcher

Learning the Sport: Baseball. Baseball Cards

Learning the Sport: Baseball: Vatter's Box looking at Pitcher's Mound and Bench installed in the gallery and site of the performance2

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Pitcher's Mound and Bench installed in the gallery and site of the performance

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Pitcher's Mound and Bench from above

Learning the Sport: Baseball: The Pitcher's Mound and images as installed on wall.

Learning the Sport: Baseball/Football change over of stadium

Learning the Sport: Football: The Living Room ready for watching. (Part of the installation with field turning into carpet)

Learning the Sport: Football: installation of field and refs (self-portraits) hanging ways from the wall so you had to run a pattern to see the show. The sound of football player crashing into one another came from the tv in the living room.

Learning the Sport: Football: Refs next to images. Visitors would look from each end of the field, so to see and read the images, they "ran a pattern" from opposing sides of the field. Cut outs are life size, astroturf is proportional to a field in lines.

Learning the Sport: Football: Unnecessary Roughness

Learning the Sport: Football: Holding

Learning the Sport: Football: The Snap. With each of the images, I gave my own read on what was going on with the players. Here I wonder why the quarterback has his hands in the center's crotch.

Learning the Sport: Football: Illegal Use of Hands has me wondering why they pat each other on the butt so often.

Learning the Sport: Football: Interference. Here I talk about how the cheerleaders in their skimpy outfits interfere with the fans watching the game.

Learning the Sport: Football: Holding. I opine on why the players spend so much more time piled up or holding each other.

Learning the Sport: Football: Unnecessary Roughness. I compare the roughness of watching the cheerleader to the injuries on the field.

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