selected works from 1985-2009
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Sometimes I like a happy ending; sometimes I like a sad ending (2009) random objects random thoughts (2009) Signs of Life: an intimate portrait of someone I don't know (2008) Le stade du Miroir (2003) you are on my mind (2003) The Trouble with Translation (2003) Family Album (2002) between two points (2001) Doing Time (2000) Staging Memory (2000) I should have, I could have, I would have... ...if only (1998) I am ... (1998) The Veiled Room (1998) Projections for the Unseeing (1997) A Portable Viewing Station for Anxious Travelers (1994) In Memoriam Forgetting and Remembering Fragments of History (1993) Measure of the Man (1992) Fragments for a Story (1991) Search for Definition (1991) Isn't your/my mother beautiful? (1990) Neon for j.e. atkinson (1990) My lips are sealed (1989) Contradictions and Possibilities (1988) In the room (1987) Hide and Seek (1985) Back to Back (1985) |
A Portable Viewing Station for Anxious Travelers, 1994
Materials: Aluminium, fresnel lens, suitcase, postcards, rubber wheels, mirror Dimensions: 22 x 22 x 78 in. Exhibitions: Villefranca di Verona, Italy George Brown House, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto. A Portable Viewing Station for Anxious Travelers consists of an open-sided booth on wheels, with two rear-view mirrors, fastened to the side of the structure and a fresnal lens, attached to the front. The viewer can stand on the viewing station to determine from the rear-view mirrors where they are coming from and look through the fresnel lens to see where they are going to. The travel case attached to the front of the viewing station contains a selection of postcards from all over the world as well as a compass etched on the mirror in the suitcase. The structure is a metaphor for dislocation and exile and a commentary on our attempts to situate ourselves by looking reflectively to the past and longingly or anxiously to the future. |