(Shawn Patrick Landis, Air Check, 2003. Air, nylon-reinforced plastic, clear vinyl, blue tarpaulin, and blower. Photo by Petter Alexander Goldstine; used with permission from the artist.)

We have not come here for a rendezvous.


(Shawn Patrick Landis, Air Check, 2003. Photo by Petter Alexander Goldstine; used with permission from the artist.)

We have come here simply to rest.


(Shawn Patrick Landis, Air Check, 2003. Photo by Petter Alexander Goldstine; used with permission from the artist.)

We are refugees, en route to less troubled terrains with only a thin film protecting our caravel from the fallout. Thinking this ancient swimming pool a safe harbor, we berthed our diaphanous spaceships within its partitioned terminal.


(Shawn Patrick Landis, Air Check, 2003. Photo by Petter Alexander Goldstine; used with permission from the artist.)

Our stay will be brief, but the vaseline landscape might just convince us to strike our Utopia here.