Human Strokes, November 10, 2010 - November 9, 2020
This ten-year-long painting is a world map marked with every death I come across: one death, one stroke. White on white, the marks have built up over the years and now reveal themselves to viewers through the shadows of their thickness. They morph our usual political map into one of a radically different relief, where certain places bleed out of their physical location onto neighboring countries through the sheer number of their human losses. By translating huge numbers into time, space, and paint, the piece is a quiet observation of our daily abstraction of events and tragedies physically removed far from us and our difficulty relating to what is only accessible through the selective broadcast of the media.
Human Strokes, Nov. 10, 2010 - Nov. 9, 2020
Performance and installation with acrylic on canvas (6 x 9-1/2' / 183 x 290 cm) and news diaries, overall dimensions variable
