pinkStardust: My search for time and space

pinkStardust :  my search for time and space  continues... Why the name  pinkStardust ? Very shortly after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 the US (in collaboration with the UK) began a frenzy of atomic testing.  That testing was taking place in two major areas in the US (Utah and Nevada) and in the south Pacific.   60 miles south of the Nevada testing site lay Las Vegas.   A map found online As the propaganda machine revved up in earnest, the following message became embedded in our Cold War psyche with the USSR.  Our bombs "good" (the US),  their bombs "bad" (the USSR).  And it worked.  We became fascinated with everything atomic, including atomic testing.  After all, our fascination was necessary if we, the public, would be willing to tolerate the radioactive fallout that came along with nuclear testing.   I would have been fascinated, wouldn't you? And, we needed to be fascinated if we would also continue to believe that we were "safe"

 pinkStardust: my search for time and space Would you be surprised to discover that you are expendable?  That your life has no value other than as a test subject?  That decisions are made about your life without your knowledge or consent? That double speak and strategies from a military operations manual created in the 1930s (the Psychological Operations manual) may be defining the parameters of your existence?  Sounds crazy, right? Like a conspiracy theory. Well, as Inga said to her new husband Fredrick in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" "Hold on to your hat darling!" Because the story of our atomic history, especially the era of our testing times, is so crazy that it could be a Mel Brooks movie! I call the story, as expressed in my art installation, pinkStardust . The concept for pinkStardust first came into my consciousness in 2012 - and I've been obsessed with it ever since, and maybe that's a little crazy too. pinkStardust is the second of a three