“15 Reasons to go War” began as a video piece addressing the absurdity of rational motivations for a country initiating a war.  Taking the mythic American themes of progress and expansion, 15 Reasons presents a spectacle of reconfigured iconography bringing to the surface the folly and flippancy of the doctrine of manifest destiny.  

Within the process of its creation, 15 Reasons has since expanded into a survey of representations and (mis)perceptions of American culture by virtue of its uses of the internet as a database for image collection.  Themes of consumerism, fetish and violence circulate within a parade of fantastical landscapes that are all somehow undeniably American constructions.          

Fantastic Fetish of the Landscape

In order to present information gathered from the databases, members of Terrafarmer found it necessary to insert themselves into the composition being formed.  Initially, Terrorfarmer assumed the responsibility of questioning the autonomy of the individual and group within this system.  Quickly, they realized that they had become inundated and infested with the same recurrent fantasies:  the latent sexuality of war; the warm, self-edification of consuming and accumulating; and the desire for technology, tricks, software, plug-ins, and effects.  Regretfully, the reason creating the reasons given by Terra Farm cannot be transcribed into words.

The TerrorFarmer Collective existed from September 2003 until May 2005.  Members included Cliff Evans, David Matorin, and John Reposa.  They produced one project.