"The photographs of Humaliwo Chambers depict a series of interconnected underground spaces, entered through a portal on a hillside in Malibu, California. The various rooms, passageways, and the objects found in them evoke conflicting European, Latin American and Native American forms and histories. (Humaliwo is the Chumash word from which Malibu is derived, and can be translated as 'where the waves crash loudly.') Handcrafted in the artist's studio, this elaborate historical fiction is both a study of the complex and contradictory relationship between art and anthropology, and a meditation on 10,000 years of California history." --Information card.

"The project consists of three print portfolios: I. A folding panorama announces the geographical site and its surroundings. A trail winding up a mountainside leads to an opening in the rocks. II. A passageway cut into the wall of a local burnout den leads to a series of chambers. Drawing from the traditions of archeological photography, these pictures present a space that is at once a ruin and a preserve. III. The third portfolio shows artifacts recovered from the chambers. Structures and fragments first glimpsed in the second portfolio are shown again, but restored, isolated, and transformed into individual objects." --Information card.

Printed as four-color offset lithographs, the 25 prints of the project are all stereoscopic 3D image pairs, and are designed to be viewed through the accompanying freestanding stereoscope. Stereoscope is laminated plywood, plastic, metal, and mirrors, 34 x 30 x 20 cm., in cardboard box 45 x 41 x 29 cm.

Norton family > Art patronage.

Artists' books - United States.

Stereoscopes.

Stereoscopic photographs.