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The photographs were staged at the villa La Jolla in Rancho
Santa Fe, California, chosen as the site for the recreated Pompeii
because of its dramatic location:
Eleanor Antin,
'A Hot Afternoon',
from The Last Days
of Pompeii , 2001,
chromogenic print.
The town was laid out on this incredible bay - like Pompeii
- which isn't exactly on a bay, but it's filled with these beauti-
ful affluent people living the good life on the brink of
annihilation. And in California we are slipping into the
sea, eroding into the sea, living on earthquake faults. And
we finished this piece two-and-a-half weeks before 9/11.
So the relationships between America as this great colonial
power and Rome - one of the early, great colonial powers -
were extremely clear to me. And I think it's pretty much
clear to everybody from the work.
Ian Brown, Natural
Disaster: Variant I , 2009,
screenprint on tub-sized
Somerset Satin paper.
 
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