This installation was one of the first firm steps towards the realization of a replicable reconciliation of art and life; a rare and delicious instance in the history of humanity where there is sufficient evidence to support the reality that art has been irretrievably changed for ever.

Yet it happened in silence because there was no one really there to see it, save a few glimpses by close observers but none really aware of the saucy detail and the series of events that led to it. I could not come out and shout eureka! because I wasn't sure of it myself and even if I did, no one would have believed it.

It is almost disgraceful to tempt you this way without offering the entire story, but it is a fact at least now that the evidence for the reconciliation of art and life is so overwhelming. It took me from the year1982 to 2002 and a couple of hundred additional experimental art projects to be able to assert with conviction that this work is at the foundations of a new direction in art.

Homage to the Orange River Valley is evidence that art can intervene in the near maniacal state of the world affairs with a new level of utility or usefulness that can engage the people to experience their environment as an extension of their own culture.