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especially the Romanesque cloisters and sculptures.
Along with the Coecke Van Aelst Ovid’s Metamorphosis tapestry series,
they brought me the will to create a passage of figurative columns.
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I divided twenty four 8x4ft plywood panels.
Using every single piece, I created
12 columns,
4 sarcophagus and
3 cowhide rugs.
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serves as a lectern
on the reverse side
and supports a unique hand cut book.
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is made of a series of 6 photographs
took around the city and cut.
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in the center of an arch,
a 60ft long yellow felt cutout
rests on the balcony then the floor.
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you see the street through a ornamental
single line cut into the wall.
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The left monitor displays sequences of the Three Kings parade shot in Spanish Harlem.
The middle shows a set made in the studio about Marguerite Madeleine Alacoque who appears on the central stain glass of the choir.
On the right screen we see passers-by on Ashes Friday in slow motion walking with a dark cross on their forehead.
In the stairway leading to the crypt, there is a 200 photographs slideshow.
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