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