Twenty-four photopolymer intaglio prints on Hahnemühle Copperplate Paper, Warm White, 300 gsm. 5 X 3.3-inch plates, 8.5 X 7-inch sheets. In an edition of one, with one artist's proof. Printed by the artist.
Images are from frames of three 8-mm loop films in a 1975 series from the National Association of the Deaf. The films were on cartridges designed for a special viewing device. I shot through the viewfinder, then made intaglio prints from those images.
Images are from frames of three 8-mm loop films in a 1975 series from the National Association of the Deaf. The films were on cartridges designed for a special viewing device. I shot through the viewfinder, then made intaglio prints from those images.
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I'm interested in how moments later live independent of their original meaning. I'm interested in language, and how we make assumptions when we don't understand. I'm interested in failed communication, especially within families.
The cartridges and viewer belonged to my father, who worked with the deaf community; he studied them when learning American Sign Language. I looked to feel what it was like to be my father looking. (This is what my father paid attention to. This is what he was looking at.)
The cartridges and viewer belonged to my father, who worked with the deaf community; he studied them when learning American Sign Language. I looked to feel what it was like to be my father looking. (This is what my father paid attention to. This is what he was looking at.)
The narratives being signed – once very important to this man, this woman and this girl – are now without context, broken up. So these are stories from a forgotten family about what happened in the distant past, fragments of which may be glimpsed in the present but that no one can understand.