This video has proved so fascinating to me that I consider it a continual work in progress, which I have been unable to leave alone since I first began working on it in 1988. Every time I think it is finished I find myself compelled to add, subtract, embed, cut, copy, and dub new material into it, as an always evolving collage.

This video is a way to show my work in its full dimensions, combining my roles as a sound sculptor, a musician and a videographer. It is based primarily on my own visual interpretations of a poem by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, evoking a dialog dealing with the culture of militarism. A human cast, consisting of one performer, a dear friend Jim Blachly, combines with two sound sculptures to make up the characters in the video. The sequences filmed in the studio are then mixed with short segments drawn from television. The sound track is produced by mixing sounds produced by the sculptures with the voices of the performer and two readers, Maria Gonzales and Chichi Perez, mixed on home-made four-track recorder.