Twenty-four photopolymer intaglio prints and five handwritten pages. Prints and handwritten pages on Hahnemühle Copperplate Paper, Bright White, 300 gsm. 9 X 6-inch plates, 19 X 15-inch sheets. Prints are in editions of two, with one artist's proof. Printed and written by the artist.
Handwritten pages consist of 24 texts corresponding to the objects depicted. Texts were written, edited and then written formally by hand as a final "printing," determining the order for both prints and texts. Legible versions of the essays are available on request.
Handwritten pages consist of 24 texts corresponding to the objects depicted. Texts were written, edited and then written formally by hand as a final "printing," determining the order for both prints and texts. Legible versions of the essays are available on request.
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This series of objects is from my childhood household. The 24 essays that go with them tell a contrasting story. I wrote them on the same printmaking paper: 16,000 almost illegible words. These pages thus become objects themselves, finally part of family history.
In Households, as in Making Room, Book Card and Iron Mountain, I depict an aspect of the urban homestead and invite a questioning of ownership: how may we be known through tools we hold? I look at aspects of American middle-class life that haven't changed much over a century and the greater force exerted by the past over the present and the future. How are we defined and confined by what we keep?
In Households, as in Making Room, Book Card and Iron Mountain, I depict an aspect of the urban homestead and invite a questioning of ownership: how may we be known through tools we hold? I look at aspects of American middle-class life that haven't changed much over a century and the greater force exerted by the past over the present and the future. How are we defined and confined by what we keep?
Cover story about this series in Else: the Journal of International Art, Literature, Theory and Creative Media (Germany).
My reading of one of the texts.