Body of Work

With the pandemic’s erasure of people who retreated behind closed doors or even died, I began working with processes and formats to disappear or change figures. Like wood twist toys, children’s flip-flap books and the drawing game of Exquisite Corpse, Body of Work separates images of people in to parts. As I printed the people, I rearranged to order of feet, torsos and heads on 3 standing scrolls. Like individual pages of a 3-part book or twist toy, when the 3 scrolls interlock as coils, only a few parts are visible and, depending on alignment, combine heads, feet and torsos of different people. (installed dimensions variable depending on configuration, spacing & tightness of coils)