Secrets of the Wind Cave
Luke Meeken & Andrew Negrey.
Performance, installation, video at the Ellis Gallery. 2004.

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I HEAR THERE IS A CAVE CALLED WIND CAVE.
IN THERE YOU CAN SOMETIMES HEAR THE ANGELS.

SOUTHMOUST FOYER IS THE SECRET.

On the fourth floor of CFA, two explorers, Luke and Andrew, come across a new cave that wasn't there before.

The cave is filled with strange rock formations, glittering sparkles, and glowing flowers from another world. A fissure in a rock is opened, revealing a light projecting a computer desktop on the cave wall. The adventurers sit at the Crystal Computer, and start a session of Angel Instant Messenger...

The adventurers speak with an Angel through the computer. The angel tells them about things like Neo Geodes, lame-looking rocks that contain awesome treasurez, and about the land of DREAMZ, a space created in the dreams of Angels as they sleep.

Angels hold hands when they sleep because they love each other and it makes them feel safe. When they dream together the dreams are so powerful that it creates a world made up of a hundred, million, billion, trillion dream worlds, and it is called The Land of Dreamz. Some of the greatest artists have spent time in there...like Willy Wonka, or Sparklephys the Santagon who was born when the angel Gabriel dreamed the Christmas Forecast.

He doesn't tell them his name, as it would fill them with Greatest Sadness, but he does invite them into DREAMZ.

 

   
         
         





         
         
   
Wind Cave. It is a secret to everyone.
   
         
         
         
         
   
Entering the Cave.
   
         
         
         
         
   
Strange rock formations...

...and glowing flowers from another world.
   
         
         
         
         
   


Talking to the angel on AIM.
   
         
         
         
         
   
In DREAMZ.
   
         
         
         
         
   


Retreiving the 10-D Specs.
   
         
         
         
         
   


Retreiving the Gold and Silver birds.
   
         
         
         
         
   




Announcing the gifts.
   
         
         
         
         
   

The Angel bids Andrew and Luke sleep, Direct Connects, and uploads their ghosts to DREAMZ.

In DREAMZ, Luke meets with T-Dog, a Secret Saint of DREAMZ, who teaches him about the beatific gesture of the Double Bird, and its implicit Whatever Dude! strategy for dismissing the cacophony.

Andrew meets with his lost older brother Jonathan, who was taken away with the lost decade, the tavities, which was plucked from its place between the 80s and 90s because it was too beautfiul.

The Adventurers then revisit the Angel, who reveals his name: Phaelon, the SublimAngel, born of the first tears of the Almighty. He wakens the Radical Dreamers back to reality, instructing them to find the hidden treasures of the cave.

After awakening, the Adventurers find golden hammers buried in the rubble at the foot of two strange formations. The rocks are smashed open-- NEO GEODES!

The adventurers take their respective treasures from the geodes. Phaelon announces the treasures as glowing mandorlas appear around the adventurers. Luke has received the 10-D Specs, which afford 10-D PSYCHO VIZION, the ability to see all perspectives, to become an awesome empath blasting lazer rays of lovingkindness.

Andrew received the Gold and Silver birds. They fly into oblivion. The golden bird will rescue the seeds of lost things, thoughts, memories, dreams, & ideas and the silver bird will search for new things as yet unknown.