This
work anticipates many of the spatial and temporal themes that the
artist and Mario Costa were to develop in the 1980s in the context
of the Esthetics of Communication including the unpredictability
of real time processes, long-distance presence, and contingent relationships
between parallel spheres of reality. The installation involves two
closed-circuit television monitors. The first displays non-stop
live footage of a tree in the public square outside the museum.
Visitors inside the museum are given a hand-held video camera and
are told to recreate the exact point of view of the outside camera
that is the source of the tree footage. The output of the hand-held
camera is displayed on the screen of the second monitor on the surface
of which the outline key elements of the outside landscape (buildings,
lamp posts, billboards, etc.) have been traced.