Jack Craft & ted laredo: The Shallowater Silo Project. Two site specific installations.

Craft and laredo team up to explore the possibilities offered by an empty grain silo located in the middle of a field in the heart of the Llano Estacado - a place where the Apache, the Comanche and the herds of bison traveled only when it rained. It is a place so flat that native son Terry Allen once commented “in Lubbock you can see sixty miles in any direction, a hundred if you stand on a can of tuna.” 

With his piece titled LOOK AROUND artist Jack Craft is addressing the vast horizon that is Lubbock and its environs by installing a mirror around the outside circumference of the silo. The piece reflects the light and the vast landscape around the silo, drawing the viewer in. As the viewer approaches, they slowly become aware of the reflected landscape. As one draws nearer the viewer is placed in the landscape and gives a disorienting impression of being able to see a full 360 degrees.

Meanwhile inside the silo ted laredo has installed “tilted ellipse” - a rotating glittering iron orb suspended from the ceiling that interacts with a magnetic photo luminescent tape affixed to the inside perimeter of the silo. The elements merge within the space to suggest the expansiveness of the cosmos.