Dimensions : 51 x 30 x 2 inches (individual panels: 8 x 5 inches)
Medium : acetate prints, plexiglass, copper mesh, copper tube, steel rod
Made : 1998 (approx)
About
This is an early piece in a personal series motivated by a very prolonged journey through the US immigration system. This experimental piece explores both being trapped and the feeling that a system has reduced you to just your fingerprints. My intent for the viewer was to discover they were looking at someone’s identity after they drew in closer and peered through the meshes to understand what the obscured abstract blobs were. The artist’s fingerprints were scanned, enlarged and printed onto acetate gels and mounted behind barriers of copper mesh.
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