It was not an installation from which she would emerge unscathed, Caydance thought as she sat in a gallery room where repeated images of a crashing out-of-control car in a stock car race played on some of the six monitors in Francesc Torres' Dictatorship of Swiftness, while on other monitors, images of soldiers and battle scenes were repeated -- and on the gallery floor stood a field artillery gun.

Her students, she was aware, would be confronting an unaccustomed situation when asked to respond to the role of artists books in the contemporary art world -- as represented by the dynamic presence of room dominating video.

studio icon And so on Sunday would she, when in the aftermath of his return from the male-charged environment of a Football field, a man to whom she was seriously attracted drove her across the hills from Palo Alto to Santa Cruz.