{"id":1017,"date":"2009-09-06T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/buddy_bunting_-_the_new_west\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T21:53:16","slug":"buddy_bunting_-_the_new_west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/buddy_bunting_-_the_new_west.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Bunting – the last good kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say your life broke down. The last good kiss<\/span>
you had was years ago. Richard Hugo<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buddy Bunting<\/a>, Victorville, California<\/i>, 2009<\/i>, ink on paper. <\/p>\n

\"buddybuntingwest1.jpg\"<\/span>Detail:<\/p>\n

\"buddybuntingwest2.jpg\"<\/span>
At Soil<\/a> through Sept. 26<\/p>\n

Bunting:<\/p>\n

Late one night in the summer of 2005, while driving south on U.S. route
\n395 towards Los Angeles, I passed through the town of Victorville,
\nCalifornia. At the time I was unaware of the new Federal Prison there,
\nbut approaching the town from the desert its presence was made clear by
\nthe distinctive illumination of prison lights visible on the edge of
\ntown.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

 In March 2009 I returned to Victorville for two days, with the intent
\nof making drawings based on the prison and surrounding landscape. The
\ndrawing Victorville, California, 2009<\/i>, is the result of that visit.
\nVictorville is a desert community on the southern edge of
\nthe Mohave Desert, and the location of Victorville Federal Prison, a
\nhigh security penitentiary, which opened in October 2004.<\/p>\n

The prison
\nwas designed to house 960 people, and currently houses about 1500*. It
\nwas constructed on the site of a former military airbase, which was
\ndecommissioned in 1992.<\/p>\n

Across the street from the prison, the former base housing is now
\nvacant, forming a ghost town that is used for urban warfare training by
\ntroops from Fort Irwin Military Reservation. Since closing, the airport
\nhas been designated a foreign trade zone, and redesigned to accommodate
\nlarge international carriers as a base for importing products to the
\nwestern United States.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that fully 60% of all goods moving into and out of
\nSouthern California travel through Victorville*. Considered a public
\nairport, 70,000 troops a year still use the airport as the main
\ntransport hub to and from the Army’s National Training Center at Fort
\nIrwin in the Mohave Desert.*
\n*Sources: City of Victorville official website, Federal Bureau of
\nPrisons official website, and Wikipedia website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say your life broke down. The last good kissyou had was years ago. Richard Hugo Buddy Bunting, Victorville, California, 2009, ink on paper. Detail: At Soil through Sept. 26 Bunting: Late one night in the summer of 2005, while driving south on U.S. route 395 towards Los Angeles, I passed through the town of Victorville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}