Metaphorical Voids

ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINTS FROM SCANNED 12O NEGATIVES, in series of eight, 14.5 in. x 14.5 in. each (Series 1: 9 in. x 6 in. each)

Madness is an image that resides between the absence of its object and the evidence of its past existence. Such an image mediates between the visible absence and the ‘improbable’ evidence of a past, effective materiality (some would call this a ‘truth’). This mediation–the medium–is, accordingly, a hallucination… (Roberto C. Valaco, Notebooks, II, 11a)

Metaphorical Void 1-2Xivd METAPHORICAL VOIDS, SERIES 1

Metaphorical Void 2, 2X-ivd METAPHORICAL VOIDS, SERIES 2

MetaphoricalVoid3-2X-iii-b METAPHORICAL VOIDS, SERIES 3

MetaphoricalVoid4-2X-iv METAPHORICAL VOIDS, SERIES 4