Installation View, Vera List Center of the Arts, New York

Slide projection, 36 slides, dimensions variable, New York, 2004

The slide projection Left Behind shows sequences of people walking through the foyer and hallways of a corporate office building as part of their daily routines and working lives. Though seemingly unconnected, the title of the piece provides socio-historical context: Left Behind refers to the Fundamentalist Christian bestselling novels of the same name as well as to the recently passed “No Child Left Behind Act” by the US government, a federally-underfunded bill mandating standardized testing in high schools that allowed military recruiters access to high school student data.