Oceanside museum hosts exhibit dedicated to Marines

MILITARY: Oceanside museum hosts exhibit dedicated to local Marines
By TOM PFINGSTEN
For the North County Times
Posted: Friday, March 9, 2012

Across the room from where three massive panels hang in his new exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Geoffrey Cunningham posted a sheet of paper about the size of an unfolded newspaper.

On it are listed the names of all the Camp Pendleton Marines and Navy corpsmen who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since the resurgence of war in the Middle East after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. As near as he could figure, the names total 405.

The exhibit is called "Penumbra," a word that artists and lighting technicians, but few others, are likely to know.

"It's the lightest part of a shadow," he said during an interview at the museum on Tuesday.

"It's partially eclipsed ---- so you're not fully in the light, and you're not fully in the darkness. You're in a transition space.

"For me, living in Oceanside feels like that, in the fact that we are so close to the war, and we're always dealing with these subtle reminders, like hearing the bombs during practice drills, seeing all the ships offshore, seeing the helicopters pass over, seeing the fresh-faced recruits going down the street to get their hair cut. You're never too far away from it."
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