Things You Know, 1989

Installation 72” x  96”
(left) 2 hands gold leaf on lead sheet and screen print on lead sheet with repoussé  (center) three door bells, fabricated laminate  (right) cut wood, laminate

Cranbrook Academy of Art

“As human beings there are things we think, we inherently know or things that we understand and can categorically identify.   I’m looking for the fissures and breaks in the assumption that we too readily and too easily may label or even stereotype. The moment I’m looking for is the decay of certainty and in that collapse, find what fills that void in identity? There’s a condition that is in direct opposition to “knowing”  and it’s a disorder known as “face blindness” or prosopagnosia, meaning the inability to recognize your family, close friends or co-workers.  Brad Pitt has this condition.”