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Mary Lucier

The Plains of Sweet Regret

by Laura Bien

posted 11/1/2006

The U-M Museum of Art Off/Site's current video installation offers an eighteen-minute meditation on the social patterns that have swept the Great Plains clean of immigrant small farmers. The exhibit begins with a white-backgrounded montage of words evoked by the sere, vast landscapes to follow: "good hearts," "wary hearts," "the soughing wind," "tough climate,"

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