Excavation, 2021
“Like most of us Mike Cockrill has been sold the American dream long ago, and though none can return this tawdry merchandise for the mere flaw of our personal disillusion, it doesn’t stop Mike from holding up its cheap manufacture to closer scrutiny... In turns outrageously Oedipal, profoundly existential, and grimly mortal, these are pictures of the lie lived in Cold War America, the rosy future shining like a wishful promise through the mushroom clouds of an imminent global annihilation “
- Carlo McCormick