UNDER ISLAND: the land revolts (link to a description of the story)- by Carrie Dashow - 2006.

a song poem book with cd. edition of 5 silkscreened artist books

Music composition by Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg.

21 pictures and 21 original songs. Drawing unless otherwise noted are by Carrie. Click on Thumbnails for bigger picture. Notes from index below thumbnails.

Some pages documented here (see the installation at GAS)

COVER: letterpress on canvas print. Collage altered from an anonomous spiritualist painting found in the Lilydale, NY library.

DEVASTATION (score (scroll right) / MP3 )

12. Devastation/ Lighthouse Anthem: In fear of a British invasion, asylum patient John McCarthy built a fort on the swampy terrain above the Northern tip of the island (it was a mini island connected to R.I.). He was persuaded to surrender the fort with bribes of bogus money. After which supposedly another patient (or alias) Thomas Maxey then built the lighthouse in the design of Architect James Renwick (1870’s).

11. NORTHERNPLANE - Picture: Interior staircase of the of NYC Lunatic Aslyum rotunda (Octagon), designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, later Metropolitan Hospital. RIHS.

8. QUEENSBORO BRIDGE - Picture: background from the inner gizzard of an earthworm. Mr. Slyís Highschool Biology Class. People carrying exhumed bodies from Manhattan to Queens. 6. Roosevelt Island

6. Roosevelt Island (close -up)

3. UNDERWATER - Picture: Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project, Verdant Power. September of 2006 Pumps submerged in the eastern side of R.I. now supplement the energy to local Gristedeís grocery store.

13. A GREAT CONSCIOUSNESS - Picture: Utopian proposal for the island. Victor Gruen,1970ís

----> Text: Sxip Shirey

10. ASYLUM (with score) Picture: Katie Lorahís 2005 Halloween costume + Victor Gruenís R.I. vision with RIOCís (Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation: that has leased R.I. from NYC for 99 years) South End Marriot proposal. a

15. MEAT DREAMS

--> Text: Sxip Shirey

9. THE AGE OF INSTITUTIONS - Picture: Postcard from Blackwell's Island Penitentiary (circa 1828) Courtesy RIHS.

Song Score: THE AGE OF INSTITUTIONS

6. Awaken

14. FIRES (ANTHEM)