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Artworks
From the Library of Doubles I, 2022
Hand-blown, cut, polished, and mirrored glass; low-iron mirror and two-way mirror, electric light; walnut frame24 7/8 x 67 x 22 1/2 in
63.2 x 170.2 x 57.1 cmSoldFurther images
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Each work within the series entitled “From the Library of…” is a depiction of an imaginary library housing a multitude of containers or repositories for knowledge, represented by hand-blown mirrored...Each work within the series entitled “From the Library of…” is a depiction of an imaginary library housing a multitude of containers or repositories for knowledge, represented by hand-blown mirrored objects. Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ confounding short story "The Library of Babel", 1941, these archives propose to contain knowledge within unique, material objects. The container forms, “as mysterious as the knowledge itself”, suggest that knowledge is “potentially beyond words or books”. Appearing to be a framed, 2D image on the wall, each work in the series is in fact a kind of architectural intervention. Viewers look within each frame towards a vista of endlessly refracted hexagonal architecture, implying that each library is vast and just one of many possible collections.
"From the Library of Doubles I", 2022, shows ten placeholders for knowledge, each inspired loosely by the jars that may have preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls; ancient rolled parchments discovered in West Bank desert cliff caves in the 1940s. The vessels are closed by prismatic solid carved elements: a hexagon, an octagon, a decagon, a dodecagon, a tetradecagon. The prismatic elements almost disappear from some angles, and from other viewpoints refract light into its composite colors. Each shape has its own complex geometry, as every kind of knowledge has its own vocabulary. Even the hexagonal-based form of the space in which these jars are placed points towards the roughly triangular cave corner in which the most famous of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. -
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