The word HOPE, written in 2.5-meter-tall letters in the middle of a lake in the desert, burns endlessly.

BY  Collin Bradford (US)


Collin Bradford has accelerated the sunset (literally), written mas- sive words on the shores of the Great Lakes, and spent days on end staring at rocks (while drawing them). He makes video works, photographs, sculptural objects, drawings, and other artistic forms. These all incorporate his exploration of how we understand and relate to the land we inhabit and how language relates to our understanding of ourselves in the land. His work has been exhib- ited at the Anthology Film Archive (NewYork), in MADATAC at the Conde Duque Cultural Center in Madrid, at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, at the Channels Video Art Festival in Melbourne, Australia, and elsewhere throughout the United States and around the world. He has lived all over the United States and currently resides and works in Utah, where he teaches in the Department of Art at Brigham Young University.