Lost Loves / Love Lost

Pepper’s Ghost installation inside Officer’s Quarters on the historic Battleship Olympia

Lost Loves / Love Lost, located on board the Cruiser Olympia uses a pre-cinematic special effect called a Pepper’s Ghost to envision a grouping of what could be a sailor’s most cherished possession––a silver locket––rising and falling inside of his living quarters. In place of the weathered photo of a sailor’s sweetheart that one might expect, these lockets picture a chronology of regional, national and international figures that the United States has alternately fought for, with and against, as the tides of American political, economic and military interests have shifted over more than a century. This chronology charts a century-long arc of American Empire and its casualties from Filipino revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.






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