A STUDY OF HEADS & FEET
(2016) 





GALLERY PENTHOUSE

Installation consisting of two projections back to back on a hanging screen with headphones


An exploration into the geographical concept of Antipodes - two points on the earth that are diametrically opposing.


View with headphones to listen to left and right screens separately.


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Accompanying Text:

He misdials a number, causing a payphone to ring on an otherwise deserted road that is situated, by chance, exactly opposite to him on the globe.



A museum official tries to determine the age of an item, walking along its surface under a microscope for hours. She does so until she forgets what she is doing and begins to think of how similar it would be walking along the bottom of the ocean.



Voyager 1 turns its camera  around and takes one last photograph of earth; a pale blue dot among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera’s optics


A Study of Heads & Feet




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