The engrossing single-player campaign takes place in 16 gripping story missions. Amnesiac and hopelessly out-gunned, you vow to save your daughter! But you must proceed with caution and choose your tactics wisely, or you won’t stand a chance! In the course of your adventures, you realize that it is not just your own destiny that is at stake – this is about so much more.ĭustwind - The Last Resort is a post-apocalyptic real-time tactical action game with demanding combat, hours of exploration and a moving story. But in a curious way, their murderous ambush invigorates you. They torture you, rob you, and leave you for dead. It’s a free-for-all here – a brutal time to be alive! While foraging for food in the Wastelands, you and your daughter are ambushed by Raiders. The few survivors of this apocalypse now struggle to survive in the Wastelands. The AI’s robot armies targeted all other life forms on Earth. There is no fixed perspective or correct interpretation. Each experience of this living artwork will be unique.25 years have passed since the ‘Awakening’ – a cataclysmic event triggered by a renegade artificial intelligence known as ‘Mainframe’. There is no single time to view this work, as each variation provides something new: at night the distant lights refract to create a universe of stars on a tranquil afternoon the sky is transformed into banks of blue fragmented by slices of clouds. Like a human-scale lens, MIRAGE works to frame and distort the evolving world outside of it. Subject and object, interior and exterior, the psychological and physical each of these oppositional forces are held in constant tension, yet allowed to shift and transform in the ever-changing desertscape. Its mirrored surfaces form a life-size kaleidoscope that absorbs and reflects the landscape. As MIRAGE pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, its familiar architectural form becomes a framing device, a visual echo-chamber endlessly reflecting both the dream of nature as a pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest. Situated at the juncture where the rugged San Jacinto mountain range gives way to the Coachella valley, MIRAGE is perched over a distant modern development that fades into the open desert. The doors, windows, and openings have been removed to create a fluid relationship with the surrounding environment. This minimal structure now functions entirely in response to the landscape around it. MIRAGE is reconfigured as an architectural idea: the seemingly generic suburban home now devoid of a narrative, its inhabitants, their possessions. The mass-produced ranch home became a familiar sight across the country, the style filling the American landscape as quickly as each new subdivision was built. After World War II, the ranch style’s streamlined simplicity gained popularity as commercial builders employed a simplified assembly line approach to create this efficient form, matching the rapid growth of the suburbs. In the 1920s and ‘30s a small inspired group of architects working in California and the West created the first suburban ranch style houses, fusing Wright’s fluid treatment of spaces with the simple one-story homes built by ranchers. The California Ranch Style, which is unique to the West, was informed by the ideas of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who believed that architecture should be both in and of the landscape. Movement was the driving force behind the settling of the American West, and the long flat vistas that stretched toward the Pacific shaped the ideology behind this iconic embodiment of American architecture. Mirage opened on Februas a part of Desert X, a site-specific contemporary art exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield. MIRAGE distills the recognizable and repetitious suburban home into the essence of its lines, reflecting and disappearing into the vast western landscape. Utilizing the form of a ranch-style suburban American house, the sculpture is composed of reflective mirrored surfaces. MIRAGE is a site-specific installation set in the Southern California desert.

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