Lithographic print, framed; 34 x 26 inches
“To see is an intimate act recognizing that the one outside of oneself is different
and at the same time very like oneself”.
The texts of The Sighted series come from journals of the artist’s writings, which often question sight: insight, hindsight, foresight and one’s ability to recognize what is there to be seen. The capacity I am speaking of has as much to do with identity as with a phenomen-ology of knowing. It is a human capacity always full with potential.
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The Sighted (To See), white, 2013
Lithographic print, framed; 34 x 26 inches
“To see is an intimate act recognizing that the one outside of oneself is different
and at the same time very like oneself”.
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The Sighted (I Hold), 2013
Archival pigment prints, Hahnemuhle rag paper, framed Diptych; 29 x 23 inches each
“I hold a mirror to reality outer and inner. How they will comingle the owner
of the mirror may not suspect”.
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The Sighted (To Witness), 2013
Archival pigment prints, Hahnemuhle rag paper, framed; 20 x 28 inches
“To witness this simultaneous sameness and difference of you requires a commitment from me of extraordinary proportions a self inquiry into interior places within myself I cannot know (places where I am you to me) an inquiry without which there can be no recognition of the difference of you only an infinite return to my projection disguised as you a mirrored blindness. My blindness restricts the possibility of empathy and reciprocity but loves to parade as human intimacy”.
Formally this work is made difficult to read. The act of reading, seeing becomes very physical and intentional for the reader. The font, ENGRAVERS MT, is as serious as ancient etched tablets. The typography is run on, no spaces between words. The words alternate between two slightly alternating tones of ink that minimally distinguish each word from the one next to it.