The Body In Transformation

This is an installation about the body and its relationship to the person who lives in it—as a location of evolution and change—of growth, learning and metamorphosis, also of aging and disease—

This installation gives an illustration of some ideas about the body, in the form of a room full of life-size silhouettes of me. The prints are 50 inch wide, 8-10 foot tall silver gelatin photographs. They are made without negatives by unique processes, mostly by making photograms of objects and/or painting with chemistry and bleach on photographic paper. The images could be exhibited as individual photographs or as a site-specific installation. As an installation, the room is lit by a life-size sculpture of a body going through a metamorphosis, coming out of a chrysalis like a butterfly. The body is lit from the inside with christmas lights and is made of chair stuffing material and decomposing fabric. In the floor under the body is a pile of olive pollen sprinkled with grapefruit seeds cast in bronze and polished, symbolizing of the fertility of change.

This was created for the Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the installations shots are from the exhibition in 2006, the wall text from the exhibition is at the end of the images.