Mike Slack
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Work from the series A Multitude on Unlike Events* and OK OK OK
“DESCRIPTION 100 units of photographic data collected by Mike
Slack from a fixed location in Los Angeles, CA,
on February 5, 2007. Each envelope contains one
unit of data, to be distributed to the general
public during the You Can Have It All group show
in New York City, February 24 – March 17, 2007.
*The momentary state of the atmosphere we call weather; its long-term state is climate. Since weather is variable, climate embraces a multitude of unlike events, and no simple method has ever been found to express all of them with complete accuracy. The climatologist knows before hand, then, that in the eyes of some he will commit sins of commission or omission; he must find his satisfaction in bringing any description to a partial state of order.
– Harry P. Bailey, Weather of Southern California, 1966 “