Raul Marroquin confronts his audience with the many ways in which the media has played a key role in the efforts of politicians and power brokers to manipulate the public. In this show he displayed remarkable wit, humor, and technological achievement in four well-defined pieces.

The largest work, entitled As the World Turns (all works 1992), consists of an atlas, a globe, a spherical television set, and a computer monitor placed on four pedestals, each object depicting a full image of our planet. From the atlas displaying a Mercator projection, the image of the earth’s surface moved from a more