newspaper from the New York Times, graphite
22" x 13"
newspaper from the New York Times, graphite
22" x 13"
newspaper from the New York Times, graphite
22" x 13"
newspaper from the New York Times, graphite
22" x 13"
INSTALLATION VIEW:
The content of the news story is recontextualized and transformed. Through altering the pages of the Times, a cultural icon, I am able to shift and control cultural output on my own terms. I also prompt viewers to embody the experience of objects that serve as carriers of information. In this manner, I draw attention to the physicality of objects we are surrounded by everyday in what Lucy Lippard refers to as a "rematerializatoin" of language or, as in his writings, Robert Smithson refers to "language as a material entity."
The physicality of the page, achieved through the layering of the graphite, is intended to focus attention on specific content. The time-intensive process I use serves as a penance to my own impotence in the face of insurmountable geopolitical forces that confront me daily through the text and images in my morning newspaper. Through this process, I hope to shake loose the shrugging indifference perpetrated through the disconnect of lived experience and disembodied information.
