Unexcavated Last Location Site, Uluru (Ayers Rock), Central Australia (R30)
Photograph
Unexcavated Last Location Site, Uluru (Ayers Rock), Central Australia (R30)
From Ryoichi Excavations
1999
Chromogenic development print, printed 2001
18/30
Image: 10 x 15 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas, 2005
2005.0924.0007
Inscriptions recto (ink): [title] / [date of negative] / [date of print] / R [symbol] / [signature] / [edition number]
recto (printed under image): How strange that we are barely together as a group after thriteen years. Each of us has radically changed. [narrative continues fourteen lines of text]
[no inscription verso]
recto (printed under image): How strange that we are barely together as a group after thriteen years. Each of us has radically changed. [narrative continues fourteen lines of text]
[no inscription verso]
TextThis narrative of this series is as follows:
Nagatani "informs" us that in 1985, a Japanese archeologist named Ryoichi received a mysterious set of maps that led him to excavate numerous historic and contemporary sites around the world noted for their cultural significance. For 15 years, Ryoichi and his team secretly excavated these sites. At each location, they unearthed a different make of car. Ryoichi had discovered a worldwide "automobile culture" that appeared to parallel our own, although it was anachronistic, both historically and geographically. After unearthing the artifacts, Ryoichi's team covered up all evidence of their digs, but not before Nagatani had photographed each site, providing the only existing record of Ryoichi's discoveries. (source, Andrew Smith Gallery)
Nagatani "informs" us that in 1985, a Japanese archeologist named Ryoichi received a mysterious set of maps that led him to excavate numerous historic and contemporary sites around the world noted for their cultural significance. For 15 years, Ryoichi and his team secretly excavated these sites. At each location, they unearthed a different make of car. Ryoichi had discovered a worldwide "automobile culture" that appeared to parallel our own, although it was anachronistic, both historically and geographically. After unearthing the artifacts, Ryoichi's team covered up all evidence of their digs, but not before Nagatani had photographed each site, providing the only existing record of Ryoichi's discoveries. (source, Andrew Smith Gallery)
