John Gerrard Dust Storm Dalhart, Texas 2007

Dust Storm (Dalhart, Texas) 2007 is based on a single archival photograph of a storm from the 1930s American Dust Bowl, a man-made environmental catastrophe caused by a surge in petroleum based power, and a major contributor to what became the Great Depression. No moving images of the event are known to exist. The production of this work involved the virtual reconstruction - based on hundreds of the artists own photographs and films - of a ten-mile square section of Texan landscape close to the town of Dalhart, a landscape dotted with windmills, farms and fences. This documentation was subsequently enhanced by publicly accessible satellite and topographical data. Once activated, a virtual storm unfolds in a sculptural and constantly random manner within the reconstructed landscape.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• John Gerrard
• Art
• realtime 3D
• Texas
• environmental catastrope
• dust bowl
• storm
• Great Depression

[billsmith380]

Avoid Dalhart Texas. Trust me there is nothing there worth visiting and staying for. They could give that whole portion of the Texas panhandle back to Oklohoma and improve the IQ's of both states.......If you liek small minded, toothless dumb cowpokes ran by incompetent ,corrupt officials this might be the place for you. Sadly there are some good people and kids trapped in this small dust bowl town who will never escape.

[curablefury]

@olimario this looks way better projected at room-size

[olimario]

Why does this look like SyFy CG?

I've been to Dalhart. Hope to never go back.

[maestrojoeknill]

Same here, this really puts it in perspective. Wow...they lived with these as a regular way of life.

[rodfleck]

Wow - went youtube surfing as I am reading "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan and wanted to see what information was out there about Dalhart which is talked about a lot in that book. Thanks