‘Joseph McMoneagle’

Wood, laser-cut mdf, cast plastic, acrylic, plaster, ink, polyurethane

18 ½” H x 18 ½”W x 1”D

2017

Private Collection

A wall hung sculpture that depicts a scale-model masonry building façade with its rounded arched windows infilled with brick. The façade is stained with soot and age & out of each closed portal leaks a whitish substance.

This work addresses the notion of a once functional and optimistic past - which is no longer workable as originally designed. As a result only pain and frustration result in contemplating these scenes of a golden age that has been eradicated and covered.

The work is named after Joseph McMoneagle who (as with Ingo Swann) was one of the premiere Remote Viewers affiliated with the Stanford Research Institute and US Military Intelligence. The RV program sought to use the psychic abilities (clairvoyance) of several viewer / subjects as a means of conducting espionage on both known & unknown enemies.  

As an homage I have ‘embedded’ mini portraits of McMoneagle within each obscured window.