Illuminations
Vowels
2002
installation
mixed media
five colored cloths (each 248 x 50 cm)
five spice (cloves, mix of flour and vanilla powder, cinnamon, thyme, lavender)
based on the poem „Voyelles“ by Arthur Rimbaud, 1871
In the Labyrinth
2007
wall object, with text
mixed media
shoe box (20 x 35 x 14 cm)
ten paper strips (120 x 2,5 cm)
text:
»CLICK YELLOW LIGHT CLICK DARKNESS CLICK GRAY LIGHT CLICK DARKNESS AND FOOTSTEPS ECHOING ACROSS THE HALL AND FOOTSTEPS ECHOING ACROSS THE PAVEMENT IN THE SNOW COVERED STREET AND SNOW BEGINNING TO FALL (…) »
text source:
Alain Robbe-Grillet, In the Labyrinth, New York 1965 (Grove Press)
Stake and Egg
2007
sculpture
mixed media
glass container, wooden stake, and painted wooden darning egg
overall dimension: 40 x 25 x 20 cm
based on: Raymond Roussel, Impressions of Africa, Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1983
Galileo
2007
drawing
paper, pencil, ink
44 x 56 cm
text:
»I HAVE OBSERVED THE MOST DISTANT PLANET TO BE THREEFOLD«
text source:
Letter from Galileo to Keppler (c. 1600) in: C.C. [Charles Carroll] Bombaugh, Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature. Ed. Martin Gardner, New York, London 1961
Möbius Strip
2007
wall object, with text
mixed media
metal rod and paper strip
overall dimension: 33 x 16 x 46 cm
text:
»RED EGGS UNDER FALLING SNOW
STRAWBERRIES BEING SPRINKLED WITH SUGAR«
text source:
Raymond Roussel, Impressions of Africa, Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1983
The Wind-Clock in the Land of Cockaigne
2007
collage
drawing on paper, with text
70 x 50 cm
based on Raymond Roussel, Impressions of Africa, Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1983
Lever
2002
installation, with text
64 cards (each 14 x 10 cm)
print ink on board
overall dimension: 154 x 10 x 740 cm
text:
»I TURNED SILENCES AND NIGHTS INTO WORDS
I MADE THE WHIRLING WORLD STAND STILL«
text source:
Arthur Rimbaud, »Second Delirium: The Alchemy of the Word«, in ders.: A Season in Hell (Une saison en Enfer, 1873). Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works, 1976.
Resurrectine
2007
object, with text
glass bottle with label
23 cm x 10 cm (diameter)
text:
»RESURRECTINE«, handwritten byTerry Fox
inspired by Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus, 1914
