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
Part of a series exploring how it felt to be trapped in the US Immigration and Naturalization System (aka ICE today) for over 5 years. This experimental piece explores both being trapped in a system that 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. I scanned my fingerprints, enlarged the images and printed onto acetate gels and mounted them behind barriers of copper mesh.
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