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(photo, mixed paint, aluminum; 2025)
“Cut Away The Bad: Swanlights a 1950s newsprint image of an American hunter looming over a fatally injured animal is reconfigured, removing the human predator and refocussing the experience of the animal. The faces of an arctic hare and a wolverine, disembodied from the images of the steel traps that clamp their limbs, are placed in constellation with the body of the polar bear. The animal is described as having been fed to dogs.
I drew thin lines emerging from Swanlights’ head to suggest and encourage a sense of freedom lingering beyond her body. I photographed the collage, printed it at large scale and mounted on an aluminum sheet: the images meets sparkling new era of new materiality. I applied a further veil of marks in tempera and acrylic and oil paint, attempting to undo the resonance of recreational sadism and its impact upon thes animals, as it has hung around in iterations and reproductions, an imprint of the light that reflected from the surface of those scenes in the tundra 80 years ago, captured with chemicals, paper, and inks extracted from other aspects of nature internationally; and the images were turned and transformed, and reproduced, cannibalized many times over, until they weathered, and were eventually abandoned, deteriorating slowly in piles of unwanted paper acrosss a span of time, rotting in junk shops, and the hunter now long dead anonymous even, and yet Swanlights’ experience has been scavenged and reconstituted for and delivered to this moment, , , I am seeking release, forgiveness, restoration from this and all these acts of violence that implicate me as their beneficiary, no matter how naive, folorn or remote the possibilty of its attainment.”
ANOHNI
Dimensions H 47 3/4 X W 47 3/4 in.
(photo, mixed paint, aluminum; 2025)
“Cut Away The Bad: Swanlights a 1950s newsprint image of an American hunter looming over a fatally injured animal is reconfigured, removing the human predator and refocussing the experience of the animal. The faces of an arctic hare and a wolverine, disembodied from the images of the steel traps that clamp their limbs, are placed in constellation with the body of the polar bear. The animal is described as having been fed to dogs.
I drew thin lines emerging from Swanlights’ head to suggest and encourage a sense of freedom lingering beyond her body. I photographed the collage, printed it at large scale and mounted on an aluminum sheet: the images meets sparkling new era of new materiality. I applied a further veil of marks in tempera and acrylic and oil paint, attempting to undo the resonance of recreational sadism and its impact upon thes animals, as it has hung around in iterations and reproductions, an imprint of the light that reflected from the surface of those scenes in the tundra 80 years ago, captured with chemicals, paper, and inks extracted from other aspects of nature internationally; and the images were turned and transformed, and reproduced, cannibalized many times over, until they weathered, and were eventually abandoned, deteriorating slowly in piles of unwanted paper acrosss a span of time, rotting in junk shops, and the hunter now long dead anonymous even, and yet Swanlights’ experience has been scavenged and reconstituted for and delivered to this moment, , , I am seeking release, forgiveness, restoration from this and all these acts of violence that implicate me as their beneficiary, no matter how naive, folorn or remote the possibilty of its attainment.”
ANOHNI
Dimensions H 47 3/4 X W 47 3/4 in.
Please allow 3 weeks for delivery of your items. Shipping times may vary based on location and demand.