In 1991 I installed a solar powered television sculpture on a hillside in Vermont overlooking the Marlboro College campus. I created it as something that would sustain itself through the natural power of the sun while at the same time serving as an emblem of our age of mass communications and our domination of nature. I named it "Blinky". I created it as an eight foot figure with two arms reaching up towards the sky collecting energy through its solar panel hands to power its television face and window to the outside world. It interacted with the community each day as it flicked on for fifteen minutes, just into the evening news, bringing UPI footage of the world and its turmoil's. It was silent and its images in black and white. I painted it like a harlequin.
I currently have plans to create other versions of it (including an urban "Blinky") with an updated computerized system within it.

Pete Checchia - 2001