Into the Void
2002-2003 installation at Whittier College including digital prints, sculptures, found objects, C-prints, silver gelatin print
The images in this exhibition depict or refer to the deposition of Christ, the time it takes for a wound to heal, X-rays and a self-portrait in the style of a Russian death mask, shadows of various circular found objects, a collection of New York Times Obituary pages from the 1998 winter solstice to the 1999 winter solstice, an altered image of an altered image by the french artist Yves Klein in which he 'Leap[t] Into the Void' and several images of myself sleeping that were exposed all night. The sculptures refer to the passage of time, death and the void, nothing and something, the whole and the part. The strong circular motif can be read in many ways; sometimes as a void, sometimes as a hole through which we might look, sometimes as a whole, a cell or a self, and other times as a continuous process.
Shadows
2001-03, grid of 20 x 16 inch positive photograms, gelatin-silver prints
Shim
1996, carpenter's shims, 26" circumference
Pyramid
1999, hairballs, toilet paper, acrylic, wood, flourescent lights; 17 x 32 x 32 inches
Into the Void
2002-2003 installation at Whittier College
Self-Portrait (X-ray)
2001 - 2002, digital image from 7 x 10 inch pinhole negative, four spinal X-ray viewers, 41 x 67 inches
Eyedamage
1991-2000, digital image, 8 1/4 x 84 inches
Into the Void
2002-2003 installation at Whittier College
Pietas
1997, inkjet print from digital image, 60 x 40 inches
Into the Void
2002-2003 installation at Whittier College
Solstice to Solstice
1998 - 2002, newspapers, architectural display, 28 x 81 x 34 inches
Leap into the Void, Paris; 1959
1994, silver gelatin print from digitally generated 4x5 negative; 20 x 16 inches
more images from the Absence series
Where am I when I'm asleep?
2001-02, three C-prints, 20 x 16 inches each