THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

At one point I wanted to make fake UFO photos, but I figured there were so many real ones out there I didn’t need to.  There’s already enough crap in the world.  I think it’s the first place you start, if you’re going to make art about UFOs, you make fake documentary photos.  In Project Blue Book, a lot of times the pictures are landscapes where reported UFO sightings took place.  It’s as if you are supposed to imagine the sighting.  The photogaph documents the place where the “big event” happened, but now it’s just a blank terrain.

Chris Wilder in WelchmanKelley