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Wireless, Ethernet, Internet, I.M., Ping, Cellular, Satellite, Roaming; 

Frictionless communications are nothing new.  How long have we had televisions and radios?  How long have we had prayers? 

There is so much to discuss but most of it boils down to “where are you?” and “I am here.” “I am here,” says the infant when it cries out in the labor room.  “Where are you?” cries the woman when the baby is lost.  Or gone.

These houses, trees and electric poles are ordinary items that are backdrops in our lives. Even the pennants are ordinary, if you hang around circuses or car lots.  But all these things together in the gallery add up to a story about messages that travel, despite wind, and distance, over wires.  And the wires are tethers. The large house is out of reach, but is tied into one of the small houses and the writing table.  One small house had decided that connecting itself to the woods will be like camouflage, will let it blend in.  It got the idea from the house in the painting over the desk. “I Was Here” reads the writing tablet.  But everywhere the letter goes it still reads “I was Here.” You were here once.  Where are you now?  At home?  Still?