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Priest of the Temple

In Priest of the Temple, an office building juts out of a Mt. Rushmore-style mountain.

installation with live cameras

2012

The embedded video is based on the services offered at a Silicon Valley hotel spa. Behind the building, a portrait of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore looms like a Pyongyang mural. Gordon Moore's prophetic observation, Moore's Law, states that the computing power of a microchip will double every two years. Moore himself in a 2005 interview provided an amendment to this law when he added, "The law can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens."

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