Sheila Pinkel

X-Ray Eyes http://cmp1.ucr.edu/photography/xray/

Remember Cambodia

For the last thirty years I have been making work about my love of nature and my concern about its destruction. During the 1980s, I created phenomenological light works that made visible unseen aspects of the natural world. These included "Goethe Gardens? best described as prismatic light installations, "Solar Clocks and Moon Gardens," which were astronomical installations articulated by the motion of the sun and moon, and Xeroradiographs or X-Ray Xeroxes that revealed the internal structure of the physical world. I also made thirteen "Thermonuclear Gardens," information art works about the growth of the military industrial complex and the sale of weapons to foreign countries.

During the 1990s and to the present time I have included these works in a larger body of work entitled "Site: Unseen." Recent pieces have included themes of the aftermath of the Indochina Wars for Cambodian and Laotian Hmong refugees, lives of people living in remote tribal communities of Pakistan, museum guards, the history of the garment industry in Los Angeles and Bangkok, a public library mural commission about the Tongva, the native peoples who originally inhabited the Los Angeles basin, and most recently, the prison-industrial complex. From 1983 to the present time I have been an international editor of Leonardo, a publication dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology.

Hmong in Translation http://www.hmongcenter.org/hmongcultural/kouchangsstory.html

Tribal Peoples of Baluchistan