First TV Memory is a kinetic sculpture and video installation that was the precursor work to East of Fallon, Highway 50, Nevada. The work recreates my earliest recollection of television. In 1968, I remember getting up in the morning, I was 4 years of age. I wanted to watch "Captain Kangaroo" on CBS. I was very frustrated as all television progamming had been pre-empted by the image taken from a camera mounted on the back of the funeral train of Robert Kennedy. His body was being taken from Los Angeles to the East coast for burial after he was assassinated after a campaign speech in California.

In this work I created a realistic HO scale train track inside the surface of a small, kinetic Ferris wheel type structure. The small, black and white video camera, records and transmits in real-time the image that simulates the TV memory that is in my mind's eye. This work has been displayed using a video projector or a small black and white TV.

This piece was awarded the "Wand 5 Award" at the 2003 Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival of Expanded Media, Germany.