Artist in Person To the modern tourist, the world is a vast resource waiting to be tapped, refined, and consumed. The natural kingdom (and even the unnatural realm of man) is but the projection of this desire. Video diarist George Kuchar has seized upon this projective tendency, exaggerating it beyond relief. Kuchar's encounters with culture are so grotesquely proportioned that all seems to be the mere externalization of his pickled point-of-view. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his Natural Wonders works. Anything but a sportsman, Kuchar seems to experience a rising dyspepsia when enduring the great outdoors. In this evening's selections, Kuchar takes us on a highly digestible tour of Yosemite, Zion, Yellowstone, Mono Lake and other sites, leaving the city behind, but never his gastro-intestinal eruptions. Directed by his internal churnings, Kuchar deciphers nature as an anarchic analogy to his inner turmoil-thermal mud pots become his congealed juices, waterfalls a liberating liquefaction.-Steve Seid