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.

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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.

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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

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A Study of Heads & Feet




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