Terminal Destination
I was satisfied with Terminal Destination when I finished it. The aim was to capture the feeling of the old Hollywood “The End” title cards from 1930s and ’40s films, and place that language against an image that suggests a larger narrative.
The airplane crossing over a dense suburban landscape becomes a kind of fragment. It feels like the closing shot of a story you haven’t fully seen. Who was on the plane? Where were they going? What just happened?
When I was younger, I would watch films on AMC (American Movie Classic) as they aired. You couldn’t pause or rewind them and they started when they started. I often came in halfway through, catching only the end.
Those fragments stayed with me. They required reconstruction.
That’s the structure behind Terminal Destination, an ending without a beginning, where the viewer is left to supply the rest.
Terminal Destination… Man… that is a cheesy title.
I have created several pictures with ‘The End’ as a focal point. I wasn’t aware of Ruschas work until just recently. I don’t have very much to say about Ruscha as an artist, I don’t think that my work has anything to do with what Ruscha did. That said… he did do this body of work in the 90s.
I added a statement from Ruscha above. He talks about ‘the finality’, ‘the movie is rolling to a stop’. I think of what I did with the several ‘The End’ pictures is approach it from the opposite perspective. You see ‘The End’ and you are sitting there trying to figure out what happened before, so really its the start, not the end.