James Warren: The Half-life of a Sign draws on a three-month journey through the American Southwest — visiting Sun Tunnels, Spiral Jetty, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation — to explore the unstable relationship between site and representation. Paintings, photographs, and constructed image-objects move off the walls and into the room, becoming elements within a landscape rather than depictions of one. Each work holds fragments of place and prior interpretation without resolving them — meaning persisting and decaying, like a signal diminishing over time
