"The Imperial, like many of Michael Bosworth's installations, creates an environment where viewers are invited to walk into, through and around projected landscapes.  Focusing on structures and places where people once gathered, that once were filled with voices and laughter, are captured as images, stationary except for the movement of light and materials succumbing to the passage of time.  Entering into the installation, created specifically for the Swan Lounge, the sense of decay and abandonment of the site is echoed in the flickering imagery of the projections themselves.  A melancholy reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic world stands in a landscape that otherwise has barely a hint of humanity left. "

- Tammy McGovern, Curator Squeaky Wheel independent curator www.echoartfair.com

A site specific installation piece for the Echo Art Fair, "The Imperial" is a video installation piece, the form of which references a drive in movie theatre.

The video is a composite of still images shot of abandoned spaces are scattered around Southern California's Inland Empire. Environmental and geological changes or economic and political shifts have stranded communities in the desert. The buildings are abandoned and left to slowly decay in the sun or are rapidly destroyed by vandals. Using the technique of light painting at night, the subject of the videos are the structures within these abandoned places. The still images are created through light-painting. At night with the camera on a tripod a flashlight is used to "paint in" the buildings during a long exposure. Compiled of dozens of of theses still photographs, the effect is of a flickering,dying light bulb.