Selections

2013-14
digital print, flashe paint

Digital photographs of contingent objects “selected” with white paint.

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Possessions

1984-6 granite, reinforced concrete Dimensions variable Found blocks of granite encased in cast concrete with concrete handles, transforming the granite into a transportable object.

Dailies

2003 newspaper, steel, string variable dimensions

The Library Project: Excavations

2003 2 cases, each 40"x72"x28" Excavations uses the typical glass display cases used to exhibit books in libraries everywhere. These cases usually open a book to exhibit one selected spread, leaving the ...

Everyday Chidambaram

1998-2002 black granite, household objects (soap, plastic kitchenware, sponge, etc. Variable Dimensions In Everyday Chidambaram, granite plinths, based on details of Indian temple architecture, were customized to house the disposable objects of daily rituals—plastic ...

Chidambaram: Yajnayudhani

1998 paper and acrylic paint 77-1/2"x72" (48 12"x9" drawings) A set of 48 painted images of Vedic ritual objects.

Double Vision: Text Photographs

digital photographs mounted on sintra approx. 50"x 40" each Enlarged photographic prints of three narratives from the published Transactions of the American Philosophical Society: Two Hearts found in one Partridge; Account of ...

Separate Ground

Collection University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1983 granite boulder, concrete, fir 2.5' x 30' x 5' A square cast concrete well intersects an enormous stone boulder, framing a section of the boulder. This transitional ...

The Library Project: Number

bound book, 500 pages 9" x 12" x 2" Number is a book that shows the calculated number of books in the imaginary library described in Jorge Luis Borges' story "The Library ...

La Colonna Coclide Istoriata,
Becatti, Giovanni

The Library Project: Index

2003 vinyl letters, 500 sites indeterminate dimensions Index is a large-scale temporary installation that examines the library's role as an index to the world outside, focusing on the devise of the call number. ...