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Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes?, 2016

Art Athenia with 8eleven gallery

A project exploring the possibility and impossibility of remembering objects and reaching goals. Throughout the duration of the fair a dancer strives to extend his hand as far as his body will allow overtop a platform of clay. At night, the artist recreates daffodils from his memory of an Ellsworth Kelly painting.

A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)

A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)

dancer / air-dried clay

2016

2. These are actors, acting as workers, who are certainly not artisans. They could only collectively realize the column, which they made. A column, under any other circumstance, would be different.

2. These are actors, acting as workers, who are certainly not artisans. They could only collectively realize the column, which they made. A column, under any other circumstance, would be different.

video

2015

A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)

A dancer attempts to reach the height of the three dancers on a plinth of wet clay (re-performing a photograph I found when I was 28 of the 1928 production of Ode)

performer - air-dried clay

2016

Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)

Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)

air-dried clay

2016

Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)

Why am I unable to represent what is so clear to me when I close my eyes? (Clay sculptures representing, as best I could, a watercolor by Ellsworth Kelly)

air-dried clay

2016