Chico Macmurtrie

Chris Macmurtrie has created the manmade body for you to experience. If you love those inflatable snowglobes and santa clauses at christmas time you'll love this. They are much larger then those yard inflatables and seem to have a life.They are as large as your whole house. Their muscles are moving and contracting. They are breathing air. Their cells are growing into the shapes of animals, humans, and agriculture. The inflatables mimic the life of a creature in a very raw form. The installions are pumped up with air as soon as you enter a room like a motion senser activating it to start filling with air. You get to stand their and watch it become something that at first you could'nt as it lays limp and flat on the floor. The sixteen birds are gracefully flapping their wings as they migrate across the cieling. The forest of telescoping Totem Poles is a large artery across the floor made of brown twisted, knotted rubber and nylon. The vessels burst full of blood and rise across the floor. The rush of air causes these trees to sprout and head to the cieling. The trunks start to look like people. You can see faces and body parts of people start to sway, wiggle, and dance. The Totemobile is a real life transformer. A chrome car starts to to stand up and looked to me like a giant robotic cat. After it is fully standinding it starts to divide and begins to take the shape of a collision that is straightening itself out to its original form before and accident. It was almost as though I was looking at "Christina" that crazy haunted car. The love the floating tree. It was very enviormentally pretty. It reminds me of those cell phone towers that look like trees. It made the returning birds a home after the water cleanup act. The aluminum is light enough to float and the grass makes it alive habitat for the birds to raise thier young and survive in the city. It protects them from boats and humans. I like the idea of this floating island and hope this idea will catch on in big cities. The inner space was great too. You are walking through a tunnel that could be an artery, or a skeleton, or a space ship. or some sort of space that you are inside and people are looking at you. They are on the outside of the space and you are the inner space. You are the point of the art piece the inner space. I thought the Piplotti Rist video was awesome and the Gary Hill video was some type of device used in torture chambers to drive people crazy.