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  Blind/Hide: Interior View Of Blind/Hide

  title Blind/Hide: Interior View Of Blind/Hide 

  description Architecture and City Planning  Sculpture and Installations  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 102)  Tijuana River Estuary (Calif.)  Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.)  With the creation of a functioning bird blind located in the Tijuana River Estuary Reserve, Mark Dion's project "Blind/Hide" for inSITE2000 invited investigation and closer examination not only of the biodiversity of the site but also of the less apparent signs of cultural confluence specific to the location. Camouflaged to blend into the surrounding terrain the project was sited within a view of the border. The 8 x 16 foot bird blind structure housed photographs, charts, and books on the 370 bird species found at the reserve, along with binoculars and related research tools. As Dion himself said, he wanted to make a project that illustrated the complicated elements of this particular locale. The viewer was invited to become an observer of the more subtle environmental and political issues impacting the reserve, while bearing witness to how birds and wildlife have learned to conform and adapt. --inSITE2000  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Dion, Mark 

  subject Blinds (Shelters)  Boundaries  Education  Bird Watching  Birds  Political Art  Environmental Protection  Ecological Art  Border Art  Silhouettes  Nature  Natural History  Mexican-American Border Region  Landscapes (Environments)  Blackboards  Nature Centers  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Architecture (Object Genre)  Installations (Visual Works)  Insite2000 

  contributor Calisphere