LED ME SEE 1991
LED ME SEE is a body of work created with pictures, drawing and text. There are 96 pieces in it. 33 are acrylic lift-off transparencies in 8x10" frames, 27 are 16x20" photographic prints, 34 are 8x10" prints, and two are written descriptions on handmade paper of missing pieces.
LED ME SEE is my title piece for this trilogy, following others parts being called LEMME SEA TWO and I SEE TOO respectively.
Pictures were selected from advertisements and magazines. Chosen pictures were lifted and printed, and text was composed as I was writing it on each print. There are two written texts on many of them: notes exchanged by three characters, Michael, Christopher and Dr. Fitzgerald; and a banner, or headline text which can be read as a circular sentence, and which creates an additional context that alters possible readings. This is a work which activates memory; many images are repeated, although in different manners. Some are shown in altered croppings, or at different levels of generational decay. Fragments, of thoughts and of images, eventually come together to infer ideas.
I think of this work as an open text, a body which does not close itself upon a fixed concept. Rather, it asks for active engagement of reader/viewers, who must accept any implications of their own interaction with it.
LED ME SEE is my title piece for this trilogy, following others parts being called LEMME SEA TWO and I SEE TOO respectively.
Pictures were selected from advertisements and magazines. Chosen pictures were lifted and printed, and text was composed as I was writing it on each print. There are two written texts on many of them: notes exchanged by three characters, Michael, Christopher and Dr. Fitzgerald; and a banner, or headline text which can be read as a circular sentence, and which creates an additional context that alters possible readings. This is a work which activates memory; many images are repeated, although in different manners. Some are shown in altered croppings, or at different levels of generational decay. Fragments, of thoughts and of images, eventually come together to infer ideas.
I think of this work as an open text, a body which does not close itself upon a fixed concept. Rather, it asks for active engagement of reader/viewers, who must accept any implications of their own interaction with it.
full text/artist statement
LEMME SEA TWO and I SEE TOO