While another path headed northeasterly over central Nevada and beyond. Other trajectories would head southeast into Arizona, skirting Texas' Gulf Coast until the cloud rendezvoused with central Florida. Eventually, it would sweep over the Great Lakes region toward Montreal, Quebec. Over the next days, this radioactive death shroud would drift eastward over much of the Interior West from its inception at Yucca Flat. To ease the sting, they quickly lick their fingers clean. As the pastel phantasma settles, children write their names across a car window covered with fine dust that will burn their fingertips seconds later. Transfixed by a towering, pink-gray cloud advancing from the west, she puts her dishes down and steps outside to gain a better view. George housewife, pregnant with child, gazes out her kitchen window. Seconds later, a Shoshone man and his son, tracking mule deer in Ely's high country, are stopped dead in their tracks by a blinding flash of light. Sixty-five miles to the south, in the glass-walled lounge of The Desert Inn's Sky Room, an off-duty pit boss cradles a Bloody Mary waiting for the show to begin. In the moments before the light of a thousand suns illuminated the heavens, the bellwether lifts his wooly head. The Mojave Project reconsiders and establishes multiple ways in which to interpret this unique and complex landscape, through association and connection of seemingly unrelated sites, themes, and subjects thus creating a speculative and immersive experience for our audience. The Mojave Project is an experimental transmedia documentary and curatorial project led by Kim Stringfellowexploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.
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